THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2023-40547
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2023-40547

Shim vulnerability

CVSS
8.3
EPSS
4.9%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
A remote code execution vulnerability was found in Shim. The Shim boot support trusts attacker-controlled values when parsing an HTTP response. This flaw allows an attacker to craft a specific malicious HTTP request, leading to a completely controlled out-of-bounds write primitive and complete system compromise. This flaw is only exploitable during the early boot phase, an attacker needs to perform a Man-in-the-Middle or compromise the boot server to be able to exploit this vulnerability successfully.
Affected vendor
Redhat
Affected product
Shim
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2024-01-25

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable from an adjacent network, high attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2023-40547

  • Confirm whether Redhat Shim is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2023-40547.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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