CVE-2023-4697
NixOS vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2023-4697 is a vulnerability identified as Improper Privilege Management in GitHub repository usememos/memos affecting versions prior to 0.13.2. The vulnerability was disclosed and published on August 31, 2023, and has been assigned a high severity rating (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been classified as CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management) and received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 HIGH with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. This indicates that the vulnerability has network accessibility, low attack complexity, requires low privileges, needs no user interaction, and can result in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability's high CVSS score of 8.8 indicates severe potential impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system. With all three impact metrics rated as High, successful exploitation could lead to significant compromise of the system's security (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 0.13.2 of the memos repository. Users are advised to upgrade to this version or later to mitigate the vulnerability (GitHub Patch).

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