CVE-2023-38950

Exploitation

Exploited in the wild. Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-05-19. Federal remediation due 2025-06-09.

SSVC decision

• ExploitationactiveCISA reports credible evidence of active exploitation.
• AutomatableyesAn attacker can reliably automate reconnaissance through exploitation, so this scales.
• Technical ImpactpartialSuccessful exploitation gives limited control of the vulnerable component.

CISA publishes the decision points, not a final SSVC decision. The decision also depends on mission and well-being impact, which is a property of your deployment rather than of the vulnerability.

EPSS probability

84.70% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 99.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

Analyzed. NVD last modified this record on 2026-07-09.

Red Hat severity

No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2023-08-03 00:00Z3 YR AGO

Last updated

2026-07-09 00:27Z1 MO AGO

Reserved

2023-07-25

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

High (CVSS 7.5)

CNA CVSS vector

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

Weaknesses

• CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')Base

Data version

5.2

Document digest

f75ffda037287d89617299c0ae26e3444b134d848ab5cd9a598235ba86d0e6b4

• claroty.comhttps://claroty.com/team82/disclosure-dashboard/cve-2023-38950
• sploitus.comhttps://sploitus.com/exploit?id=PACKETSTORM:177859exploit
• www.fortinet.comhttps://www.fortinet.com/content/dam/fortinet/assets/reports/report-incident-response-middle-east.pdfmedia-coverage
• www.cisa.govhttps://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-38950government-resource