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CVE-2023-0298

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-0298 describes an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in Firefly III, specifically affecting versions prior to 5.8.0. This medium-severity flaw, rated 6.5 CVSS, allows a low-privileged attacker to achieve high integrity impact with low attack complexity over a network, without requiring user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:firefly-iii:firefly_iii:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.63%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
46.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0063 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 21,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: grumpydictator/firefly-iiiFixed in: 5.8.0
github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-7mc4-jp4f-v2j2medium

Improper Authorization in grumpydictator/firefly-iii

Jan 14, 2023

References

github.com / firefly-iii/firefly-iii/commit/db0500dcf0d4f1990fc7a377ef0d56c3884fcaa4
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/9689052c-c1d7-4aae-aa08-346c9b6e04ed
ExploitThird Party Advisory