🛡️ CVE-2023-38323 — opennds

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-78 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
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Description

An issue was discovered in OpenNDS before 10.1.3. It fails to sanitize the status path script entry in the configuration file, allowing attackers that have direct or indirect access to this file to execute arbitrary OS commands.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, 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 high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-38323 is classified as CWE-78: OS Command Injection. Untrusted input reaches a shell command without neutralisation, so an attacker can run arbitrary operating system commands.

Affected software and timeline

Affected software: opennds (fixed in 10.1.3). Published on 26 January 2024 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.

CVE-2023-38323 on other distributions

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Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-78
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2024-01-26
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
opennds — 10.1.3

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