CVE-2023-5183 is an unsafe deserialization vulnerability affecting Illumio Core Policy Compute Engine (PCE) products. It allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on the PCE's operating system by sending specially crafted JSON to the network_traffic API endpoint. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a severe impact with full confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. While authentication is required, the attack complexity is low. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there public exploits available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, though it has garnered significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 19.3.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:illumio:core_policy_compute_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 21.2.0, < 21.2.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:illumio:core_policy_compute_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 21.5.0, < 21.5.36CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:illumio:core_policy_compute_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 22.2.0, < 22.2.42CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:illumio:core_policy_compute_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 22.5.0, < 22.5.31CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:illumio:core_policy_compute_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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