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CVE-2023-43320

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-43320 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Proxmox VE (v5.4-8.0), Proxmox Backup Server (v1.1-3.0), and Proxmox Mail Gateway (v7.1-8.0), allowing a remote authenticated attacker to bypass two-factor authentication. With a CVSS score of 8.8, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.1, <= 3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:proxmox:backup_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.1, <= 8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:proxmox:proxmox_mail_gateway:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.4, <= 8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:proxmox:virtual_environment:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.99%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
58.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0099 is in the 55th percentile among its peer group of 17,829 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/176967/Proxmox-VE-7.4-1-TOTP-Brute-Force.html
bugzilla.proxmox.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
bugzilla.proxmox.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
github.com / proxmox/proxmox-rs/commit/50b793db8d3421bbfe2bce060a486263f18a90cb
Patch