CVE-2023-45696 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Details

CVE-2023-45696
Vulnerability Scoring

4.0
/10
Moderate Risk

Exploiting CVE-2023-45696 requires specific conditions, leading to a moderate security impact.

Attack Complexity Details

  • Attack Complexity: High
    Exploits require significant effort and special conditions.
  • Attack Vector: Physical
    Physical access is required to exploit this vulnerability.
  • Privileges Required: None
    No privileges are required for exploitation.
  • Scope: Unchanged
    Exploit remains within the originally vulnerable component.
  • User Interaction: Required
    User interaction is necessary for successful exploitation.

CVE-2023-45696 Details

Status: Modified

Last updated: 🕖 03 Jun 2025, 19:15 UTC
Originally published on: 🕒 10 Feb 2024, 03:15 UTC

Time between publication and last update: 479 days

CVSS Release: version 3

CVSS3 Source

psirt@hcl.com

CVSS3 Type

Secondary

CVSS3 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2023-45696 Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2023-45696: Sametime is impacted by sensitive fields with autocomplete enabled in the Legacy web chat client. By default, this allows user entered data to be stored by the browser.

Assessing the Risk of CVE-2023-45696

Access Complexity Graph

The exploitability of CVE-2023-45696 depends on two key factors: attack complexity (the level of effort required to execute an exploit) and privileges required (the access level an attacker needs).

Exploitability Analysis for CVE-2023-45696

CVE-2023-45696 presents a challenge to exploit due to its high attack complexity, but the absence of privilege requirements still makes it a viable target for skilled attackers. A thorough security review is advised.

Understanding AC and PR

A lower complexity and fewer privilege requirements make exploitation easier. Security teams should evaluate these aspects to determine the urgency of mitigation strategies, such as patch management and access control policies.

Attack Complexity (AC) measures the difficulty in executing an exploit. A high AC means that specific conditions must be met, making an attack more challenging, while a low AC means the vulnerability can be exploited with minimal effort.

Privileges Required (PR) determine the level of system access necessary for an attack. Vulnerabilities requiring no privileges are more accessible to attackers, whereas high privilege requirements limit exploitation to authorized users with elevated access.

CVSS Score Breakdown Chart

Above is the CVSS Sub-score Breakdown for CVE-2023-45696, illustrating how Base, Impact, and Exploitability factors combine to form the overall severity rating. A higher sub-score typically indicates a more severe or easier-to-exploit vulnerability.

CIA Impact Analysis

Below is the Impact Analysis for CVE-2023-45696, showing how Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability might be affected if the vulnerability is exploited. Higher values usually signal greater potential damage.

  • Confidentiality: High
    Exploiting CVE-2023-45696 can result in unauthorized access to sensitive data, severely compromising data privacy.
  • Integrity: None
    CVE-2023-45696 poses no threat to data integrity.
  • Availability: None
    CVE-2023-45696 does not impact system availability.

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

The EPSS score estimates the probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the near future.

EPSS Score: 0.135% (probability of exploit)

EPSS Percentile: 50.34% (lower percentile = lower relative risk)
This vulnerability is less risky than approximately 49.66% of others.

CVE-2023-45696 References

External References

CWE Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-524

CAPEC Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification

  • Lifting Sensitive Data Embedded in Cache CAPEC-204 An adversary examines a target application's cache, or a browser cache, for sensitive information. Many applications that communicate with remote entities or which perform intensive calculations utilize caches to improve efficiency. However, if the application computes or receives sensitive information and the cache is not appropriately protected, an attacker can browse the cache and retrieve this information. This can result in the disclosure of sensitive information.

Vulnerable Configurations

  • cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:sametime:11.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:sametime:11.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:sametime:11.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:sametime:11.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:sametime:12.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:sametime:12.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:sametime:12.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:sametime:12.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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