Confidential-data disclosure via hijacked WebSocket session
Published May 11, 2023 · Updated Jan 27, 2025
Cross-site WebSocket hijacking in Ubiquiti UniFi OS 2.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to read confidential data through a user's browser. Ubiquiti has not published the affected WebSocket endpoint or the origin and session validation it performs incorrectly. Exploitation requires a signed-in UniFi OS user to visit an attacker-controlled webpage; the reported consequence is data disclosure only.
Summary
What happened
Cross-site WebSocket hijacking in Ubiquiti UniFi OS 2.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to read confidential data through a user's browser. Ubiquiti has not published the affected WebSocket endpoint or the origin and session validation it performs incorrectly. Exploitation requires a signed-in UniFi OS user to visit an attacker-controlled webpage; the reported consequence is data disclosure only.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-28361
- Published
- May 11, 2023
- Updated
- Jan 27, 2025
- Vendor
- Ubiquiti
- Product
- UniFi OS
- Classifications
- CWE-352, T1189
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 11, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jan 27, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=Fixed in UniFi OS 3.0.13 or later.
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