Authenticated Resources Accessible via Forced Browsing

Description

Coverity versions prior to 2023.3.2 are vulnerable to forced browsing, which exposes authenticated resources to unauthorized actors. The root cause of this vulnerability is an insecurely configured servlet mapping for the underlying Apache Tomcat server. As a result, the downloads directory and its contents are accessible. 5.9 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C)

Timeline

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.43% · top 62% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• CWE-425 Direct Request ('Forced Browsing') (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-425 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Synopsys · Coverity

  • affected ≤ 2023.3.1

References (2)

• https://community.synopsys.com/s/article/SIG-Product-Security-Advisory-CVE-2023-1663-Affecting-Coverity-Platform (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
• https://community.synopsys.com/s/article/Mitigation-for-Coverity-Platforms-Exposure-to-CVE-2023-1663 (opens in a new tab)mitigationx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2023-1663](https://cveledger.app/badge/CVE-2023-1663.svg)](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-1663)

Record last updated 12 Feb 2025, 16:19 UTC.