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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.1

CVE-2023-38208 json

Validate Your Inputs | Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') (CWE-78)

published 2023-08-09 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-mxc9-g6m4-2v35 , EUVD-2023-42028

cvss
9.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.5%
EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.6-p1 (and earlier), 2.4.5-p3 (and earlier) and 2.4.4-p4 (and earlier) are affected by an Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution by an admin-privilege authenticated attacker. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.

Patch / fix

  • packagist magento/community-edition 2.4.4-p5, 2.4.5-p4, 2.4.6-p2
  • adobe commerce 2.4.4

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
20 mo ago

Exploit prediction

2.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist magento/community-edition
1 listed version
>=2.4.6-p1, <2.4.6-p2
>=2.4.5-p1, <2.4.5-p4
>=2.4.4-p1, <2.4.4-p5
2.4.6-p2
2.4.5-p4
2.4.4-p5
packagist magento/project-community-edition
<=2.0.2
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • Adobe Magento Commerce

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

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.