CVE-2023-21418

State: Published
Severity: 7.1 High
Published: Nov 21, 2023
Updated: Jun 11, 2025
Reserved: Nov 4, 2022

Description

Sandro Poppi, member of the AXIS OS Bug Bounty Program, has found that the VAPIX API irissetup.cgi was vulnerable to path traversal attacks that allows for file deletion. This flaw can only be exploited after authenticating with an operator- or administrator-privileged service account. The impact of exploiting this vulnerability is lower with operator service accounts and limited to non-system files compared to administrator-privileges. Axis has released patched AXIS OS versions for the highlighted flaw. Please refer to the Axis security advisory for more information and solution.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.1 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H	Axis

Weaknesses

CWE-35 Path Traversal

Affected Products

Product	Versions
AXIS OSAxis Communications AB	AXIS OS 6.50 – 11.6Affected

References

https://www.axis.com/dam/public/49/93/55/cve-2023-21418-en-US-417792.pdf

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