CVE-2023-38994The 'check_univention_joinstatus' prometheus monitoring script (and other scripts) in UCS 5.0-5 revealed the LDAP plaintext password of…
- 7.9HighCVSS base score
- 0.30%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 77% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The 'check_univention_joinstatus' prometheus monitoring script (and other scripts) in UCS 5.0-5 revealed the LDAP plaintext password of the machine account in the process list allowing attackers with local ssh access to gain higher privileges and perform followup attacks. By default, the configuration of UCS does not allow local ssh access for regular users.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 18 months later
· 18 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| mitreCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.9 | CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:L/A:N/C:H/I:H/PR:H/S:C/UI:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.30% · top 77% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.9.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References4
- https://forge.univention.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56324 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.drive-byte.de/en/blog/simple-yet-effective-the-story-of-some-simple-bugs-that-led-to-the-complete-compromise-of-a-network (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://forge.univention.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56324#c0 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://raeph123.github.io/BlogPosts/Univention/Simple_yet_effective_The_story_of_some_simple_bugs_that_led_to_the_complete_compromise_of_a_network_en.html (opens in a new tab)
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)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-42751 (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)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-38994)Record last updated .