What is CVE-2023-43052?

CVE-2023-43052 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Control Center, classified under CWE-435. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-03-07.

How severe is CVE-2023-43052?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in IBM Control Center

CVE-2023-43052

IBM Control Center 6.2.1 through 6.3.1 is vulnerable to an external service interaction attack, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to induce the application to perform server-side DNS lookups or HTTP requests to arbitrary domain names. By submitting suitable payloads, an attacker can cause the application server to attack other systems that it can interact with.

EPSS: 0.004 (28.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Ibm Control Center — versions 6.2.1
Ibm Control_center — versions 6.2.1.0, 6.3.1.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-435

References

psirt@us.ibm.com (vendor-advisory, patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-43052?: CVE-2023-43052 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Control Center, classified under CWE-435. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-03-07.
How severe is CVE-2023-43052?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.