CVE-2023-43802Path traversal in Arduino Create Agent
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 0.37%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 68% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Arduino Create Agent is a package to help manage Arduino development. This vulnerability affects the endpoint `/upload` which handles request with the `filename` parameter. A user who has the ability to perform HTTP requests to the localhost interface, or is able to bypass the CORS configuration, can escalate their privileges to those of the user running the Arduino Create Agent service via a crafted HTTP POST request. This issue has been addressed in version `1.3.3`. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 26 days later
· 26 days later
Published
- 11 months later
· 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A: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)
- 0.37% · top 68% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Affected products
arduino · arduino-create-agent
- affected < 1.3.3
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/arduino/arduino-create-agentGHSA-75j7-w798-cwwx (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://github.com/arduino/arduino-create-agent/security/advisories/GHSA-75j7-w798-cwwx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/arduino/arduino-create-agent/releases/tag/1.3.3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.nozominetworks.com/blog/security-flaws-affect-a-component-of-the-arduino-create-cloud-ide (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-2683 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-75j7-w798-cwwx (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-43802)Record last updated .