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🛡️ CVE-2023-1712 — farm-haystack

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-547 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Use of hard-coded, security-relevant constants in deepset-ai/haystack

Use of Hard-coded, Security-relevant Constants in GitHub repository deepset-ai/haystack in version 1.15.0 and prior. A patch is available at commit 5fc84904f198de661d5b933fde756aa922bf09f1.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-1712 is classified as CWE-547: Use of Hard-coded, Security-relevant Constants. The product uses hard-coded constants instead of symbolic names for security-critical values, which increases the likelihood of mistakes during code maintenance or security policy change.

Affected software

CVE-2023-1712 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • farm-haystack
  • haystack (fixed in 2023-03-29)

Timeline and source

Published on 30 March 2023 and last revised on 1 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
huntr.dev (Web)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-547: Use of Hard-coded, Security-relevant Constants) in other software:

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-547
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-03-30
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-01

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
farm-haystack — —
haystack — 2023-03-29

Exploit Protection

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