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FKIE_CVE-2023-6239

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-11-28 14:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:50

Severity

5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Under rare conditions, the effective permissions of an object might be incorrectly calculated if the object has a specific configuration of metadata-driven permissions in M-Files Server versions 23.9, 23.10, and 23.11 before 23.11.13168.7, potentially enabling unauthorized access to the object.

References

	URL	Tags
	security@m-files.com	https://empower.m-files.com/security-advisories/CVE-2023-6239
	security@m-files.com	https://product.m-files.com/security-advisories/cve-2023-6239/
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.m-files.com/about/trust-center/security-advisories/cve-2023-6239/

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
m-files	m-files_server	*
m-files	m-files_server	23.9
m-files	m-files_server	23.10

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CVE-2023-6239 (GCVE-0-2023-6239)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-28 14:07 – Updated: 2026-02-23 08:58

Title

Incorrect calculation of effective permissions

Summary

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE

CWE-281 - Improper Preservation of Permissions

Assigner

M-Files Corporation

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://product.m-files.com/security-advisories/c…	vendor-advisory
https://empower.m-files.com/security-advisories/C…	vendor-advisory
https://www.m-files.com/about/trust-center/securi…	vendor-advisoryx_transferred

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
M-Files	M-Files Server	Affected: 23.9 Affected: 23.10 Affected: 23.11 , < 23.11.13168.7 (custom)

Date Public

2023-11-28 13:52

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Sightings

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