CVE-2023-5444

CSRF in ePO leading to privilege escalation

HIGH
8
CVSS Score
Published: November 17, 2023 at 09:47 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:48 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorEpolicy Orchestrator

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Severity
HIGH8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

A Cross Site Request Forgery vulnerability in ePolicy Orchestrator prior to 5.10.0 CP1 Update 2 allows a remote low privilege user to successfully add a new user with administrator privileges to the ePO server. This impacts the dashboard area of the user interface. To exploit this the attacker must change the HTTP payload post submission, prior to it reaching the ePO server.

Affected

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

8HIGHtrellix
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-352

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