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CVE-2023-1699

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-1699 is a critical forced browsing vulnerability affecting Rapid7 Nexpose versions 6.6.186 and below. An unauthenticated attacker can manipulate URLs to gain unauthorized access to administrative pages, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity. While no public exploits or active exploitation have been observed, and community discussion is minimal, immediate patching to version 6.6.187 is strongly recommended.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 6.6.187CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:nexpose:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 0, <= 6.6.186CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:nexpose:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
36.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0045 is in the 14th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

docs.rapid7.com / release-notes/nexpose/20230329
Release Notes