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CVE-2023-6689 (GCVE-0-2023-6689)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-19 23:20 – Updated: 2026-02-25 16:34
VLAI
Title
Cross-Site Request Forgery in EFACEC BCU 500
Summary
A successful CSRF attack could force the user to perform state changing requests on the application. If the victim is an administrative account, a CSRF attack could compromise the entire web application.
Severity
8.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-01-06 05:01 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
EFACEC BCU 500 Affected: version 4.07
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Credits
Aarón Flecha Menéndez of S21sec
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