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CVE-2023-38156

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-38156 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft Azure HDInsight Apache Ambari, stemming from a JDBC injection flaw. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (HIGH), this vulnerability allows a highly privileged attacker to achieve full compromise (confidentiality, integrity, availability) over the affected system with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (not in KEV) and no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_hdinsight:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.0, < 2308221128CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_hdinsight:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.2HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.87%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0187 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 5,537 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure HDInsightFixed in: 2308221128
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2023-Sep/CVE-2023-38156Important

Azure HDInsight Apache Ambari JDBC Injection Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Sep 12, 2023

References

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-38156
PatchVendor Advisory