Privilege escalation in Checkmk Appliance
Priority LOW 39CWE-732Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Privilege escalation in Tribe29 Checkmk Appliance before 1.6.4 allows authenticated site users to escalate privileges via incorrectly set permissions.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00683 52nd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Checkmk Appliance (Tribe29): 1.6.4
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Checkmk Appliance (Tribe29) Fixed in 1.6.4
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
Tribe29 Checkmk Appliance 1.6.4
2 records Highest priority Priority LOW 2 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2023-08572 Site-Passwords in GET parametersPriority LOW 24
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-22294
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-65m5-hmp6-qgjx
References
Advisory 1
More Tribe29 Checkmk vulnerabilities
- TI-2021-17818 The web management console of CheckMK Enterprise Edition (versions 1.5.0 to 2.0.0p9) does… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2023-14915 Command injection via active checks and REST API CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2023-14914 Livestatus command injection in RestAPI CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2023-06155 Improper privilege management in Checkmk CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2023-14917 Disabled automation users could still authenticate CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2023-06159 Uncontrolled search path in Checkmk CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
Sources
- CVE-2023-22294 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-22294 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-65m5-hmp6-qgjx · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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