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CVE-2023-34259

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-34259 is a directory traversal vulnerability affecting Kyocera TASKalfa 4053ci printers (and potentially other models like d-copia253mf_plus) that allows authenticated attackers to read arbitrary files, including those requiring root privileges. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.9) has a high confidentiality impact and is easily exploitable over the network with high privileges. While not currently on CISA's KEV catalog, its high EPSS score (0.92742) and the existence of a Nuclei template indicate a significant likelihood of exploitation, and it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2vg_s000.002.561CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:kyocera:d-copia253mf_plus_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.9MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
60.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Nuclei: CVE-2023-34259 · Oct 8, 2023
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6048 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 3,563 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

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

sec-consult.com / vulnerability-lab
Third Party Advisory
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2023/Jul/15
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory