What is CVE-2023-32728?

CVE-2023-32728 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Zabbix, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 4.6/10. Published 2023-12-18.

How severe is CVE-2023-32728?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.6 out of 10.

RCE in Zabbix

CVE-2023-32728

The Zabbix Agent 2 item key smart.disk.get does not sanitize its parameters before passing them to a shell command resulting possible vulnerability for remote code execution.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

Published 2023-12-18 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.008 (54.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-24.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 55th percentile — 54.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Zabbix — versions 5,0,0, 6.0.0, 6.4.0
Zabbix Zabbix-Agent2 — versions 7.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-23858 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-32728?: CVE-2023-32728 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Zabbix, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 4.6/10. Published 2023-12-18.
How severe is CVE-2023-32728?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.6 out of 10.