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CVE-2023-4617
Gaining remote control over Govee devices
Critical10.0EPSS 0.61%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- CERT-PL
Description
Incorrect authorization vulnerability in HTTP POST method in Govee Home application on Android and iOS allows remote attacker to control devices owned by other users via changing "device", "sku" and "type" fields' values. This issue affects Govee Home applications on Android and iOS in versions before 5.9.
Timeline
ID reserved
By CERT-PL
- 16 months later
· 16 months later
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CERT-PLCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical10.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Critical10.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.61% · top 51% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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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 < 5.9
- affected < 5.9
References (4)
- https://cert.pl/en/posts/2024/12/CVE-2023-4617/ (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
- https://cert.pl/posts/2024/12/CVE-2023-4617/ (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.govee.home (opens in a new tab)product
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/govee-home/id1395696823 (opens in a new tab)product
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 Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2023-4617)Record last updated .