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CVE-2023-28018

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-28018 describes a denial of service vulnerability affecting HCL Connections, stemming from improper validation of specific requests. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this with low complexity by crafting a malicious request, leading to a high impact denial of service for affected users. While the CVSS score is 6.5 (Medium), there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:connections:6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:connections:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:connections:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.1
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
24.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 24th percentile among its peer group of 26,220 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

support.hcltechsw.com / csm
Vendor Advisory