CVE-2023-33981 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Briar before 1.4.22 allows attackers to spoof other users' messages in a blog, forum, or private group, but each spoofed message would need to be an exact duplicate of a legitimate message displayed alongside the spoofed one.

Published: 2023-05-24

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:briarproject:briar:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-38105	Briar before 1.4.22 allows attackers to spoof other users' messages in a blog, forum, or private group, but each spoofed message would need to be an exact duplicate of a legitimate message displayed alongside the spoofed one.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00159.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://briarproject.org/news/2023-three-security-issues-found-and-fixed/
https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/infk/inst-infsec/appliedcrypto/education/theses/report_YuanmingSong.pdf

History

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Briarproject Briar

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-05-24T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-01-16T15:51:06.384Z

Reserved: 2023-05-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-33981

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T15:54:14.209Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-05-24T18:15:10.877

Modified: 2025-01-16T16:15:30.487

Link: CVE-2023-33981

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-354

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