CVE-2023-32315
igniterealtime Openfire
Published 26 May 2023 · updated 17 Jun 2026 · Analyzed
Exploited in the wild
CISA added this to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 24 Aug 2023, with a remediation deadline of 14 Sept 2023 for US federal agencies.
Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Description
Openfire is an XMPP server licensed under the Open Source Apache License. Openfire's administrative console, a web-based application, was found to be vulnerable to a path traversal attack via the setup environment. This permitted an unauthenticated user to use the unauthenticated Openfire Setup Environment in an already configured Openfire environment to access restricted pages in the Openfire Admin Console reserved for administrative users. This vulnerability affects all versions of Openfire that have been released since April 2015, starting with version 3.10.0. The problem has been patched in Openfire release 4.7.5 and 4.6.8, and further improvements will be included in the yet-to-be released first version on the 4.8 branch (which is expected to be version 4.8.0). Users are advised to upgrade. If an Openfire upgrade isn’t available for a specific release, or isn’t quickly actionable, users may see the linked github advisory (GHSA-gw42-f939-fhvm) for mitigation advice.
References
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/173607/Openfire-Authentication-Bypass-Remote-Code-Execution.html · Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- github.com/igniterealtime/Openfire/security/advisories/GHSA-gw42-f939-fhvm · Exploit, Mitigation, Patch
- www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-32315 · US Government Resource