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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.8

CVE-2023-2538 json

TLS Private Key Accessible to External Parties

published 2023-07-05 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-34017

cvss
5.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 15%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A CWE-552 "Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties” in the web interface of the Tyan S5552 BMC version 3.00 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to retrieve the private key of the TLS certificate in use by the BMC via forced browsing. This can then be abused to perform Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks against victims that access the web interface through HTTPS.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 4.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

  • tyan s5552_bmc

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-552 Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.