CVE-2023-43052

low-risk
Published 2025-03-07

IBM Control Center 6.2.1 through 6.3.1 is vulnerable to an external service interaction attack, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to induce the application to perform server-side DNS lookups or HTTP requests to arbitrary domain names. By submitting suitable payloads, an attacker can cause the application server to attack other systems that it can interact with.

Do I need to act?

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0.08% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 5.3/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (2)

Control Center
Control Center

Affected Vendors

Ibm

References (1)

Vendor Advisory https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7185102
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low-risk
Severity 21/34 · High
Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal
Exposure 7/34 · Low