$ cve CVE-2023-36812 JSON

CVE-2023-36812

9.8

CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 16.5% (pctl 97)

Patch early

EPSS 16.5% — above the 10% action threshold.

Description

OpenTSDB is a open source, distributed, scalable Time Series Database (TSDB). OpenTSDB is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution vulnerability by writing user-controlled input to Gnuplot configuration file and running Gnuplot with the generated configuration. This issue has been patched in commit `07c4641471c` and further refined in commit `fa88d3e4b`. These patches are available in the `2.4.2` release. Users are advised to upgrade. User unable to upgrade may disable Gunuplot via the config option`tsd.core.enable_ui = true` and remove the shell files `mygnuplot.bat` and `mygnuplot.sh`.

Scoring

CVSS	9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.1)
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS	16.5% — more likely to be exploited than 97% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-74
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	none known
Published	2023-06-30
Last modified	2026-06-17

Affected (1)

Vendor	Product
opentsdb	opentsdb

References

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