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🛡️ CVE-2023-1768 — checkmk

🟢 CVSS 3.7 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-446 NVD
3.7
CVSS Score
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Description

Inappropriate error handling in Tribe29 Checkmk <= 2.1.0p25, <= 2.0.0p34, <= 2.2.0b3 (beta), and all versions of Checkmk 1.6.0 causes the symmetric encryption of agent data to fail silently and transmit the data in plaintext in certain configurations.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, 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 low, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

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

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • 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: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-1768 is classified as CWE-446: UI Discrepancy for Security Feature. The user interface does not correctly enable or configure a security feature, but the interface provides feedback that causes the user to believe that the feature is in a secure state.

Affected software

CVE-2023-1768 is recorded against 1 package.

  • checkmk

Timeline and source

Published on 4 April 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

checkmk.com
checkmk.com

Other advisories for this package

checkmk has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-446: UI Discrepancy for Security Feature) in other software:

CVE-2023-1768 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 3.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-446
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-04-04
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
checkmk — —

References

Patch, Vendor Advisory https://checkmk.com/werk/15423
Patch, Vendor Advisory https://checkmk.com/werk/15423

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