CVE-2023-38693

criticalpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.008 · 57 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.82% (57th) EPSS

CVSS 9.8 · critical

Is it mine?

10 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Lucee Server (or simply Lucee) is a dynamic, Java based, tag and scripting language used for rapid web application development. The Lucee REST endpoint is vulnerable to RCE via an XML XXE attack. This vulnerability is fixed in Lucee 5.4.3.2, 5.3.12.1, 5.3.7.59, 5.3.8.236, and 5.3.9.173.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

10.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · security-advisories@github.comexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.110criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.19criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-611USCWE-611US

affected products (10)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

lucee Lucee≤ < 5.3.7.59enisa_euvdEU
lucee Lucee5.3.12.0, → 5.3.12.1enisa_euvdEU
lucee Lucee5.3.8.0, → 5.3.8.236enisa_euvdEU
lucee Lucee5.3.9.0, → 5.3.9.173enisa_euvdEU
lucee Lucee5.4.0.0, → 5.4.3.2enisa_euvdEU
Maven org.lucee:lucee≤ 5.3.7.59osvUSpkg:maven/org.lucee/lucee
Maven org.lucee:lucee5.3.10.79-RC → 5.3.12.1osvUSpkg:maven/org.lucee/lucee
Maven org.lucee:lucee5.3.8.132-RC → 5.3.8.236osvUSpkg:maven/org.lucee/lucee
Maven org.lucee:lucee5.3.9.113 → 5.3.9.173osvUSpkg:maven/org.lucee/lucee
Maven org.lucee:lucee5.4.0.65-RC → 5.4.3.2osvUSpkg:maven/org.lucee/lucee

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-vwjx-mmwm-pwrfLucee RCE/XXE Vulnerability2025-03-05ghsa · osvUS
### Impact The Lucee team received a responsible disclosure of a security vulnerability which affects all previous releases of Lucee. After reviewing the report and confirming the vulnerability, the Lucee team then conducted a further security review and found additional vulnerabilities which have been addressed as part of this this security update. ### Patches Lucee 5.4.3.2 and 5.3.12.1 stable releases have been patched with additional hardening The older releases, 5.3.7.59., 5.3.8.236 and 5.3.9.173 have also been patched Any users running older release, should plan to immediately upgrade to the latest stable release 6.0 will have a RC as it's not yet released

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2025-03-05modified 2026-06-17

references (4)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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