CVE-2023-38994 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2023-38994

The 'check_univention_joinstatus' prometheus monitoring script (and other scripts) in UCS...

Vulnerability Description

The 'check_univention_joinstatus' prometheus monitoring script (and other scripts) in UCS 5.0-5 revealed the LDAP plaintext password of the machine account in the process list allowing attackers with local ssh access to gain higher privileges and perform followup attacks. By default, the configuration of UCS does not allow local ssh access for regular users.

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.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Unknown
Vulnerable Versions:
Unknown

Timeline

Official Publish: October 31st, 2023
Last Modified: April 15th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.