01 Record
CVE-2023-38994
The 'check_univention_joinstatus' prometheus monitoring script (and other scripts) in UCS 5.0-5 revealed the LDAP plaintext password of the machine account in the process list allowing attackers with
HighPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base score7.9 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:L/A:N/C:H/I:H/PR:H/S:C/UI:N
02 Description
The 'check_univention_joinstatus' prometheus monitoring script (and other scripts) in UCS 5.0-5 revealed the LDAP plaintext password of the machine account in the process list allowing attackers with
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.34% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 28.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- 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.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2023-10-31 00:00Z2 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2025-04-15 22:09Z1 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2023-07-25
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.9)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:L/A:N/C:H/I:H/PR:H/S:C/UI:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-668Exposure of Resource to Wrong SphereClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 513928412cc5106317d8e91b4b797b89ddc7b117e0decefa2599a23bceb7062f
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- forge.univention.orghttps://forge.univention.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56324
- www.drive-byte.dehttps://www.drive-byte.de/en/blog/simple-yet-effective-the-story-of-some-simple-bugs-that-led-to-the-complete-compromise-of-a-network
- forge.univention.orghttps://forge.univention.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56324#c0
- raeph123.github.iohttps://raeph123.github.io/BlogPosts/Univention/Simple_yet_effective_The_story_of_some_simple_bugs_that_led_to_the_complete_compromise_of_a_network_en.html