CVE-2023-29208 - CVE House

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Status published High CVE-2023-29208

Data leak through deleted documents

7.5 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. Rights added to a document are not taken into account for viewing it once it's deleted. Note that this vulnerability only impact deleted documents that where containing view rights: the view rights provided on a space of a deleted document are properly checked. The problem has been patched in XWiki 14.10 by checking the rights of current user: only admin and deleter of the document are allowed to view it.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

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Affected Vendor

xwiki

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Affected Software

xwiki-platform

Vulnerable Versions:

>= 1.2-milestone-1, < 13.10.11, >= 14.0-rc-1, < 14.4.7, >= 14.5, < 14.10

Timeline

Official Publish: April 15th, 2023

Last Modified: February 6th, 2025

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1213 Data from Information Repositories

T1005 Data from Local System

T1078 Valid Accounts