CVE-2023-39004 is a critical vulnerability affecting OPNsense Community Edition before 23.7 and Business Edition before 23.4.2, stemming from insecure permissions in the /conf/ directory. This allows unauthenticated attackers to access sensitive information, such as hashed root passwords, potentially leading to full system compromise and privilege escalation. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), it is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, resulting in high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness and potential for future exploitation.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 23.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:opnsense:opnsense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.