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CVE-2023-40918

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-40918 describes an Escalation of Privileges vulnerability in KnowStreaming version 3.3.0, allowing unauthorized users to create new administrative accounts. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit intelligence (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) or active exploitation (KEV) has been observed, and community discussion is minimal, the potential for significant damage remains.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:knowstreaming_project:knowstreaming:3.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
44.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0058 is in the 35th percentile among its peer group of 17,822 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / didi/KnowStreaming/issues/1128
ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory