Vulnerability in Economizzer
CVE-2023-38873
The commit 3730880 (April 2023) and v.0.9-beta1 of gugoan Economizzer is vulnerable to Clickjacking. Clickjacking, also known as a "UI redress attack", is when an attacker uses multiple transparent or opaque layers to trick a user into clicking on a button or link on another page when they were intending to click on the top-level page. Thus, the attacker is "hijacking" clicks meant for their page and routing them to another page, most likely owned by another application, domain, or both.
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CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.008 (53.9th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 54th percentile — 53.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.008 · change: +0.001
Affected products
- Economizzer — versions 0.9, april_2023
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- github.com/gugoan/economizzer (Product)
- www.economizzer.org (Product)
- github.com/dub-flow/vulnerability-research/tree/main/CVE-2023-38873 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2023-38873?
- CVE-2023-38873 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Economizzer, classified under Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames (Clickjacking). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2023-09-28.
- How severe is CVE-2023-38873?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2023-38873 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.