🛡️ CVE-2023-29246 — openmeetings

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-20 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Apache OpenMeetings vulnerable to remote code execution via null-bye injection

An attacker who has gained access to an admin account can perform RCE via null-byte injection

Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected: Apache OpenMeetings from 2.0.0 before 7.1.0

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative 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-2023-29246 is classified as CWE-20: Improper Input Validation. The application accepts input without checking that it has the expected form, so malformed values reach code that assumes they are well formed.

Affected software

CVE-2023-29246 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • openmeetings (from 2.0.0 up to 7.1.0)
  • org.apache.openmeetings:openmeetings-parent (from 2.0.0 up to 7.1.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 12 May 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

lists.apache.org
lists.apache.org

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-20
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-05-12
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
openmeetings 2.0.0 7.1.0
org.apache.openmeetings:openmeetings-parent 2.0.0 7.1.0

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