CVE-2023-4178 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Neutron Smart VMS versions prior to b1130.1.0.1. This flaw, categorized as CWE-290 (Authentication Bypass by Spoofing), allows an unauthenticated attacker to completely bypass authentication mechanisms. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), successful exploitation grants full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< b1130.1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:neutron:smart_vms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.