🛡️ CVE-2023-38167 — dynamics-365-business-central

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.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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: High — administrative rights are needed first.
• 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-2023-38167 is classified as CWE-284: Improper Access Control. The software does not restrict an action to the actors that should be allowed to perform it.

Affected software

CVE-2023-38167 is recorded against 1 package.

• dynamics-365-business-central

Timeline and source

Published on 8 August 2023 and last revised on 10 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Other advisories for this package

dynamics-365-business-central has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2026-40417 (7.8 High, published 12 May 2026)
• CVE-2024-43460 (8.1 High, published 17 Sep 2024)
• CVE-2024-38225 (8.8 High, published 10 Sep 2024)
• CVE-2024-35249 (8.8 High, published 11 Jun 2024)
• CVE-2024-35248 (7.3 High, published 11 Jun 2024)
• CVE-2024-21380 (8.0 High, published 13 Feb 2024)
• CVE-2022-41127 (8.5 High, published 13 Dec 2022)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-284: Improper Access Control) in other software:

• CVE-2022-29160 (2.0 Low, published 12 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-45438 (published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2016-0757 (published 6 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2002-0170 (8.0 High, published 2 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2000-1212 (published 2 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-31231 (5.9 Medium, published 22 May 2026)
• CVE-2023-24215 (9.1 Critical, published 18 May 2026)
• CVE-2022-21619 (3.7 Low, published 8 May 2026)

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