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CVE-2023-33189
Incorrect Authorization with specially crafted requests
Critical10.0EPSS 0.92%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
Pomerium is an identity and context-aware access proxy. With specially crafted requests, incorrect authorization decisions may be made by Pomerium. This issue has been patched in versions 0.17.4, 0.18.1, 0.19.2, 0.20.1, 0.21.4 and 0.22.2.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 13 days later
· 13 days later
Published
- 20 months later
· 20 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical10.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.92% · top 39% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 10.0.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/pomerium/pomeriumGHSA-pvrc-wvj2-f59p (opens in a new tab)
References (8)
- https://github.com/pomerium/pomerium/security/advisories/GHSA-pvrc-wvj2-f59p (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/pomerium/pomerium/commit/d315e683357a9b587ba9ef399a8813bcc52fdebb (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/pomerium/pomerium/releases/tag/v0.17.4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/pomerium/pomerium/releases/tag/v0.18.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/pomerium/pomerium/releases/tag/v0.19.2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/pomerium/pomerium/releases/tag/v0.20.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/pomerium/pomerium/releases/tag/v0.21.4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/pomerium/pomerium/releases/tag/v0.22.2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-pvrc-wvj2-f59p (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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