CVE-2023-50481

FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-50481 is a high-severity information disclosure vulnerability affecting blinksocks version 3.3.8. It stems from the use of weak encryption algorithms within the /presets/ssr-auth-chain.js component, allowing remote attackers to obtain sensitive information. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is network-exploitable with low attack complexity, potentially leading to high confidentiality impact without requiring user interaction. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		3.3.8CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:blinksocks:blinksocks:3.3.8:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.27%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

19.6%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0027 is in the 4th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-pqj5-37xf-x5gcmedium

blinksocks has weak encryption algorithms

Dec 21, 2023

References

github.com / blinksocks/blinksocks/issues/108

Issue Tracking

github.com / tianjk99/Cryptographic-Misuses/blob/main/CVE-2023-50481.md

Third Party Advisory