THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2023-49964
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2023-49964

Alfresco Content Services vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
34.7%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
An issue was discovered in Hyland Alfresco Community Edition through 7.2.0. By inserting malicious content in the folder.get.html.ftl file, an attacker may perform SSTI (Server-Side Template Injection) attacks, which can leverage FreeMarker exposed objects to bypass restrictions and achieve RCE (Remote Code Execution). NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-12873.
Affected vendor
Hyland
Affected product
Alfresco Content Services
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2023-12-11

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 34.7% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2023-49964

  • Confirm whether Hyland Alfresco Content Services is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2023-49964.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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