🛡️ CVE-2023-2291 — manageengine-access-manager-plus

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-798 NVD
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Description

Static credentials exist in the PostgreSQL data used in ManageEngine Access Manager Plus (AMP) build 4309, ManageEngine Password Manager Pro, and ManageEngine PAM360. These credentials could allow a malicious actor to modify configuration data that would escalate their permissions from that of a low-privileged user to an Administrative user.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level 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.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-2291 is classified as CWE-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials. Credentials are built into the product, so they are identical on every installation and cannot be rotated.

Affected software

CVE-2023-2291 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • manageengine-access-manager-plus
  • manageengine-pam360
  • manageengine-password-manager-pro

Timeline and source

Published on 26 April 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-798
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-04-26
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
manageengine-access-manager-plus — —
manageengine-pam360 — —
manageengine-password-manager-pro — —

References

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