What is CVE-2023-37896?

CVE-2023-37896 is a high-severity vulnerability in Projectdiscovery Nuclei, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2023-08-04.

How severe is CVE-2023-37896?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Projectdiscovery Nuclei

CVE-2023-37896

Nuclei is a vulnerability scanner. Prior to version 2.9.9, a security issue in the Nuclei project affected users utilizing Nuclei as Go code (SDK) running custom templates. This issue did not affect CLI users. The problem was related to sa…

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.009 (75.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Projectdiscovery Nuclei — versions < 2.9.9

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/security/advisories/GHSA-2xx4-jj5v-6mff (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/pull/3927 (x_refsource_MISC)
https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/releases/tag/v2.9.9 (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-37896?: CVE-2023-37896 is a high-severity vulnerability in Projectdiscovery Nuclei, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2023-08-04.
How severe is CVE-2023-37896?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.