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CVE-2023-43644

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-43644 describes a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Sing-box, an open-source proxy system, affecting all SOCKS5 inbounds with user authentication. An attacker can exploit this by sending specially crafted requests, potentially gaining unauthorized access. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sagernet:sing-box:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sagernet:sing-box:1.5.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sagernet:sing-box:1.5.0:beta10:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sagernet:sing-box:1.5.0:beta11:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sagernet:sing-box:1.5.0:beta12:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.1CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
48.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0068 is in the 30th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/sagernet/sing-boxFixed in: 1.4.5
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/sagernet/sing-boxFixed in: 1.5.0-rc.5
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/sagernet/singFixed in: 0.2.12-0.20230925092853-5b05b5c147d9
github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-r5hm-mp3j-285gcritical

sing-box vulnerable to improper authentication in the SOCKS inbound

Sep 26, 2023

References

github.com / SagerNet/sing-box/security/advisories/GHSA-r5hm-mp3j-285g
Vendor Advisory