Vulnerability · Published Mar 29, 2023 · Assigned by rapid7
CVE-2023-28503Authentication bypass in UniRPC's udadmin service
Critical 9.8
In plain English
A critical-severity hard-coded credentials in UniData from Rocket Software. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 62.1% (higher than 99.2% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit.
Official description
Rocket Software UniData versions prior to 8.2.4 build 3003 and UniVerse versions prior to 11.3.5 build 1001 or 12.2.1 build 2002 suffer from an authentication bypass vulnerability, where a special username with a deterministic password can be leveraged to bypass authentication checks and execute OS commands as the root user.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Rocket Software | UniData | 0 – before 8.2.43.3003 |
| Rocket Software | UniVerse | 0 – before 11.3.5.10010 – before 12.2.1.2002 |
Weakness: CWE-798 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H