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CVE-2023-54391

Proxmox VE 7.0-8.0 Authentication Bypass via tfa-challenge Parameter

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  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 7.0 through 8.0 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in libpve-access-control before 8.0.4 that allows unauthenticated attackers to authenticate as any existing enabled user without a configured second factor by supplying an arbitrary tfa-challenge value in the API login endpoint. Attackers can send a POST request to the access ticket API endpoint with any value in the tfa-challenge parameter to completely skip password verification, gaining unauthorized access including to the root@pam account. All affected releases are end of life.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE)

    From 7.0 · through 7.4

References 4

forum.proxmox.com

git.proxmox.com

vulncheck.com