🛡️ CVE-2023-2868
🔴 CVSS 9.4 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-20 NVD
9.4
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A remote command injection vulnerability exists in the Barracuda Email Security Gateway (appliance form factor only) product effecting versions 5.1.3.001-9.2.0.006. The vulnerability arises out of a failure to comprehensively sanitize the processing of .tar file (tape archives). The vulnerability stems from incomplete input validation of a user-supplied .tar file as it pertains to the names of the files contained within the archive. As a consequence, a remote attacker can specifically format these file names in a particular manner that will result in remotely executing a system command through Perl's qx operator with the privileges of the Email Security Gateway product. This issue was fixed as part of BNSF-36456 patch. This patch was automatically applied to all customer appliances.

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE CWE-20
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-05-24
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-10-24
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
email-security-gateway-300-firmware 5.1.3.001 9.2.0.006
email-security-gateway-400-firmware 5.1.3.001 9.2.0.006
email-security-gateway-600-firmware 5.1.3.001 9.2.0.006
email-security-gateway-800-firmware 5.1.3.001 9.2.0.006
email-security-gateway-900-firmware 5.1.3.001 9.2.0.006

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