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CVE-2023-45213 (GCVE-0-2023-45213)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-06 21:39 – Updated: 2025-05-15 19:43
VLAI
Title
Westermo Lynx Permissive Cross-domain Policy with Untrusted Domains
Summary
A potential attacker with access to the Westermo Lynx device would be able to execute malicious code that could affect the correct functioning of the device.
Severity
6.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-08 19:08 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-942 - Permissive Cross-domain Policy with Untrusted Domains
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Westermo Lynx Affected: L206-F2G1
Affected: 4.24
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Date Public
2024-01-23 21:36
Credits
Aarón Flecha Menéndez, Iván Alonso Álvarez and Víctor Bello Cuevas reported these vulnerabilities to CISA.
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