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CVE-2023-5937
Sensitive data exfiltration via unsafe permissions on Windows systems in Arc before v1.6.0
Medium5.2EPSS 0.14%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Nozomi
Description
On Windows systems, the Arc configuration files resulted to be world-readable. This can lead to information disclosure by local attackers, via exfiltration of sensitive data from configuration files.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Nozomi
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 4 months later
· 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NozomiCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium5.2 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H |
| NozomiCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | Medium5.2 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.14% · top 96% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.2.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected < 1.6.0
What to do
Solution: Upgrade to v1.6.0 or later.
References (1)
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-2023-5937)Record last updated .