What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-4309?

CVE-2023-4309 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 (Critical). CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. EPSS exploitation probability: 1.1%.

Internet Election Service CVE-2023-4309

CRITICAL

SQL Injection (CWE-89)

2023-10-10 9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725

SQLi Internet Election Service

9.8

CVSS 3.1 · NVD

Severity by source

NVD PRIMARY

9.8 CRITICAL

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.

CVSS VectorNVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Lifecycle Timeline

CVE Published

Oct 10, 2023 - 18:15 nvd

CRITICAL 9.8

DescriptionNVD

Election Services Co. (ESC) Internet Election Service is vulnerable to SQL injection in multiple pages and parameters. These vulnerabilities allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to read or modify data for any elections that share the same backend database. ESC deactivated older and unused elections and enabled web application firewall (WAF) protection for current and future elections on or around 2023-08-12.

AnalysisAI

Election Services Co. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Technical ContextAI

This vulnerability is classified as SQL Injection (CWE-89), which allows attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands against the database. Election Services Co. (ESC) Internet Election Service is vulnerable to SQL injection in multiple pages and parameters. These vulnerabilities allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to read or modify data for any elections that share the same backend database. ESC deactivated older and unused elections and enabled web application firewall (WAF) protection for current and future elections on or around 2023-08-12. Affected products include: Electionservicesco Internet Election Service.

RemediationAI

No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Use parameterized queries/prepared statements. Never concatenate user input into SQL. Apply least-privilege database permissions.