🛡️ CVE-2023-6038
🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-29 NVD
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability exists in the h2o-3 REST API, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files on the server with the permissions of the user running the h2o-3 instance. This issue affects the default installation and does not require user interaction. The vulnerability can be exploited by making specific GET or POST requests to the ImportFiles and ParseSetup endpoints, respectively. This issue was identified in version 3.40.0.4 of h2o-3.

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-29
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-11-16
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-04-16
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ai.h2o:h2o-core
h2o

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