CVE-2023-4551 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2023-4551

Command Injection via Task Scheduler

Vulnerability Description

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in OpenText AppBuilder on Windows, Linux allows OS Command Injection. The AppBuilder's Scheduler functionality that facilitates creation of scheduled tasks is vulnerable to command injection. This allows authenticated users to inject arbitrary operating system commands into the executing process. This issue affects AppBuilder: from 21.2 before 23.2.

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

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • George Mathias

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

AppBuilder
Vulnerable Versions:
23.2, 21.2

Timeline

Official Publish: January 29th, 2024
Last Modified: August 2nd, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
Execution
T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
Privilege Escalation
T1213 Data from Information Repositories
Collection
T1565.002 Stored Data Manipulation
Impact