CVE-2023-20238 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Cisco BroadWorks Application Delivery Platform and Cisco BroadWorks Xtended Services Platform. This flaw allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to forge credentials due to improper SSO token validation. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), a successful exploit could lead to toll fraud, execution of commands at the privilege level of the forged account, including administrator access to view confidential information, and modify customer or user settings. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV: No), the vulnerability has garnered significant community attention with 4 mentions and 2 media articles, indicating high awareness. There are currently no public exploit tools like Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB entries.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
ri.2023.06CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:broadworks_application_delivery_platform:ri.2023.06:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
ri.2023.07CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:broadworks_application_delivery_platform:ri.2023.07:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 23.0.1075.ap384245CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:broadworks_xtended_services_platform:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* | ||
2023.06CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:broadworks_xtended_services_platform:2023.06:*:*:*:release_independent:*:*:* | ||
2023.07CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:broadworks_xtended_services_platform:2023.07:*:*:*:release_independent:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.