CVE-2023-38489

HIGHNVD 7.37.3
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 7.3 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2023-07-28. NVD baseline CVSS 7.3; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2023-1969 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-5mvj-rvp8-rf45 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

7.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.8%CVSS: 7.3Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Kirby is a content management system. A vulnerability in versions prior to 3.5.8.3, 3.6.6.3, 3.7.5.2, 3.8.4.1, and 3.9.6 affects all Kirby sites with user accounts (unless Kirby's API and Panel are disabled in the config). It can only be abused if a Kirby user is logged in on a device or browser that is shared with potentially untrusted users or if an attacker already maliciously used a previous password to log in to a Kirby site as the affected user.

Insufficient Session Expiration is when a web site permits an attacker to reuse old session credentials or session IDs for authorization. In the variation described in this advisory, it allows attackers to stay logged in to a Kirby site on another device even if the logged in user has since changed their password. Kirby did not invalidate user sessions that were created with a password that was since changed by the user or by a site admin. If a user changed their password to lock out an attacker who was already in possession of the previous password or of a login session on another device or browser, the attacker would not be reliably prevented from accessing the Kirby site as the affected user.

The problem has been patched in Kirby 3.5.8.3, 3.6.6.3, 3.7.5.2, 3.8.4.1, and 3.9.6. In all of the mentioned releases, the maintainers have updated the authentication implementation to keep track of the hashed password in each active session. If the password changed since the login, the session is invalidated. To enforce this fix even if the vulnerability was previously abused, all users are logged out from the Kirby site after updating to one of the patched releases.

CVSS v3
7.3
EG Score
7.3HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
33
EG Risk 33/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity73% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.3 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.8% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.8%
EPSS %ILE
56th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (7.3): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.3 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.3 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.8% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

July 27, 2023

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (7)

Auto-updated Oct 28, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_commit, github_release, github.
GitHub release Patch Available

3.6.6.3

Patch available: getkirby/kirby 3.6.6.3

https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/releases/tag/3.6.6.3
GitHub release Patch Available

3.5.8.3

Patch available: getkirby/kirby 3.5.8.3

https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/releases/tag/3.5.8.3
GitHub commit Patch Available

commit 7a0a2014c69f (getkirby/kirby)

Patch available: getkirby/kirby 5.2.2 (contains commit 7a0a2014c69f)

https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/commit/7a0a2014c69fdb925ea02f30e7793bb50115e931
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

Insufficient Session Expiration after a password change · Advisory · getkirby/kirby · GitHub

https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/security/advisories/GHSA-5mvj-rvp8-rf45
GitHub release Patch Available

3.9.6

Patch available: getkirby/kirby 3.9.6

https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/releases/tag/3.9.6
GitHub release Patch Available

3.8.4.1

Patch available: getkirby/kirby 3.8.4.1

https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/releases/tag/3.8.4.1
GitHub release Patch Available

3.7.5.2

Patch available: getkirby/kirby 3.7.5.2

https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/releases/tag/3.7.5.2

Patch Availability(5)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
composergetkirby/cms @ 3.5.8.3 (fixes < 3.5.8.3)—ghsa
composergetkirby/cms @ 3.6.6.3 (fixes >= 3.6.0, < 3.6.6.3)—ghsa
composergetkirby/cms @ 3.7.5.2 (fixes >= 3.7.0, < 3.7.5.2)—ghsa
composergetkirby/cms @ 3.8.4.1 (fixes >= 3.8.0, < 3.8.4.1)—ghsa
composergetkirby/cms @ 3.9.6 (fixes >= 3.9.0, < 3.9.6)—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Packagist(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
getkirby/cms3.9.0 ... 3.9.6-rc.1 (12 versions)
  • every version up to 3.5.8.3: fixed in 3.5.8.3
  • 3.6.0 up to 3.6.6.3: fixed in 3.6.6.3
  • 3.7.0 up to 3.7.5.2: fixed in 3.7.5.2
  • 3.8.0 up to 3.8.4.1: fixed in 3.8.4.1
  • 3.9.0 up to 3.9.6: fixed in 3.9.6
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 38× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 97 of 215 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 3 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 118 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  2. 2026-11-01 08:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5mvj-rvp8-rf45 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.3
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  1. 2026-10-13 09:24 UTCOSV refresh
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2023-38489?
CVE-2023-38489 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 27, 2023. Kirby is a content management system. A vulnerability in versions prior to 3.5.8.3, 3.6.6.3, 3.7.5.2, 3.8.4.1, and 3.9.6 affects all Kirby sites with user accounts (unless Kirby's API and Panel are disabled in the config). It can only be abused if a Kirby user is logged in on a device or browser…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2023-38489 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2023-38489 was published on July 27, 2023. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2023-38489 actively exploited?
CVE-2023-38489 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (56th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-38489?
CVE-2023-38489 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.3 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2023-38489?
A fix for CVE-2023-38489 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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