What is CVE-2023-26560?

CVE-2023-26560 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Northern.tech Cfengine, classified under Observable Discrepancy. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2023-04-26.

How severe is CVE-2023-26560?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Northern.tech Cfengine

CVE-2023-26560

Northern.tech CFEngine Enterprise before 3.21.1 allows a subset of authenticated users to leverage the Scheduled Reports feature to read arbitrary files and potentially discover credentials.

Published 2023-04-26 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (43.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 44th percentile — 43.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Northern.tech Cfengine

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-203 — Observable Discrepancy

References

northern.tech (Product)
cfengine.com/blog/2023/cve-2023-26560/ (Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-26560?: CVE-2023-26560 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Northern.tech Cfengine, classified under Observable Discrepancy. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2023-04-26.
How severe is CVE-2023-26560?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.