CVE Feed

    Dashboard / CVE / CVE-2023-48643

    CVE-2023-48643

    Shrubbery tac_plus 2.x, 3.x. and 4.x through F4.0.4.28 allows unauthenticated Remote Command Execution. The product allows users to configure authorization checks as shell commands through the tac_plus.cfg configuration file. These are executed when a client sends an authorization request with a username that has pre-authorization directives configured. However, it is possible to inject additional commands into these checks because strings from TACACS+ packets are used as command-line arguments. If the installation lacks a a pre-shared secret (there is no pre-shared secret by default), then the injection can be triggered without authentication. (The attacker needs to know a username configured to use a pre-authorization command.) NOTE: this is related to CVE-2023-45239 but the issue is in the original Shrubbery product, not Meta's fork.

    Published:May 16, 2024
    Last Modified:Apr 15, 2026
    EPS:May 16, 2024
    EPSS Score:0.07266
    CVSS Score:9.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Shrubbery
    Product
    Tac Plus 2x
    Vendor
    Shrubbery
    Product
    Tac Plus 3x
    Vendor
    Shrubbery
    Product
    Tac Plus 4x

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High