CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-33983

7.4 HIGH Published 2023-05-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-05-24
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-862

Description

The Introduction Client in Briar through 1.5.3 does not implement out-of-band verification for the public keys of introducees. An introducer can launch man-in-the-middle attacks against later private communication between two introduced parties.

Affected configurations

• briarproject briar (<= 1.5.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness

References