Medium severity · published Mar 7, 2025
CVE-2023-43052
IBM Control Center external service interaction
5.3
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
IBM Control Center 6.2.1 through 6.3.1 is vulnerable to an external service interaction attack, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to induce the application to perform server-side DNS lookups or HTTP requests to arbitrary domain names. By submitting suitable payloads, an attacker can cause the application server to attack other systems that it can interact with.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 30% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CC
Control Center · IBM
6.2.1 through 6.3.1 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-43052
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-43052
Vendor Advisory
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7185102
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