CVE-2023-4853 (GCVE-0-2023-4853)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-20 09:47 – Updated: 2025-11-07 10:17
VLAI?
Title
Quarkus: http security policy bypass
Summary
A flaw was found in Quarkus where HTTP security policies are not sanitizing certain character permutations correctly when accepting requests, resulting in incorrect evaluation of permissions. This issue could allow an attacker to bypass the security policy altogether, resulting in unauthorized endpoint access and possibly a denial of service.
Severity ?
8.1 (High)
CWE
- CWE-148 - Improper Neutralization of Input Leaders
Assigner
References
Impacted products
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Unaffected:
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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