CVE-2023-4588
File accessibility vulnerability in Delinea Secret Server
File accessibility vulnerability in Delinea Secret Server, in its v10.9.000002 and v11.4.000002 versions. Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an authenticated user with administrative privileges to create a backup file in the application's webroot directory, changing the default backup directory to the wwwroot folder, and download it with some configuration files such as encryption.config/ and database.config stored in the wwwroot directory, exposing the database credentials in plain text.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- High
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
File accessibility vulnerability in Delinea Secret Server
File accessibility vulnerability in Delinea Secret Server, in its v10.9.000002 and v11.4.000002 versions. Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an authenticated user with administrative privileges to create a backup file in the application's webroot directory, changing the default backup directory to the wwwroot folder, and download it with some configuration files such as encryption.config/ and database.config stored in the wwwroot directory, exposing the database credentials in plain text.
- Record
CVE-2023-4588- CVSS 3.1
- 6.8 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-552
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2023-54441
File accessibility vulnerability in Delinea Secret Server, in its v10.9.000002 and v11.4.000002 versions. Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an authenticated user with administrative privileges to create a backup file in the application's webroot directory, changing the default backup directory to the wwwroot folder, and download it with some configuration files such as encryption.config/ and database.config stored in the wwwroot directory, exposing the database credentials in plain text.
- Record
EUVD-2023-54441- CVSS 3.1
- 6.8 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-hg36-f8hx-frw9
File accessibility vulnerability in Delinea Secret Server, in its v10.9.000002 and v11.4.000002...
File accessibility vulnerability in Delinea Secret Server, in its v10.9.000002 and v11.4.000002 versions. Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an authenticated user with administrative privileges to create a backup file in the application's webroot directory, changing the default backup directory to the wwwroot folder, and download it with some configuration files such as encryption.config/ and database.config stored in the wwwroot directory, exposing the database credentials in plain text.
- Record
GHSA-hg36-f8hx-frw9- CVSS 3.1
- 6.8 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-552
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
File accessibility vulnerability in Delinea Secret Server, in its v10.9.000002 and v11.4.000002 versions. Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an authenticated user with administrative privileges to create a backup file in the application's webroot directory, changing the default backup directory to the wwwroot folder, and download it with some configuration files such as encryption.config/ and database.config stored in the wwwroot directory, exposing the database credentials in plain text.
- Record
CVE-2023-4588- CVSS 3.1
- 6.8 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N - CVSS 3.1
- 4.9 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-552
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases, published | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2023-4588 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.8) in Delinea Secret Server, published September 6, 2023. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.34%, the 27th percentile. No source names a fixed version.