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CVE-2023-26600: ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus through 14104, ServiceDesk Plus MSP through 14000, Support Center Plus through 14000, and Asset Explorer throu

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 28/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 6.3% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 93.6% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus through 14104, ServiceDesk Plus MSP through 14000, Support Center Plus through 14000, and Asset Explorer through 6987 allow privilege escalation via query reports.

MediumCVSS 6.5 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

BDU:2023-08495

Published: Mar 6, 2023
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 6.3% · 93th percentile
CWE: CWE-269

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 26 / 40 · 6.5 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 2 / 30 · 6.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
zohocorp	manageengine assetexplorer	cpe:2.3:a:zohocorp:manageengine_assetexplorer
zohocorp	manageengine servicedesk plus	cpe:2.3:a:zohocorp:manageengine_servicedesk_plus
zohocorp	manageengine servicedesk plus msp	cpe:2.3:a:zohocorp:manageengine_servicedesk_plus_msp
zohocorp	manageengine supportcenter plus	cpe:2.3:a:zohocorp:manageengine_supportcenter_plus

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

zohocorp manageengine assetexplorerbefore 6.9
zohocorp manageengine assetexplorer6.9
zohocorp manageengine servicedesk plusbefore 14.1
zohocorp manageengine servicedesk plus14.1
zohocorp manageengine servicedesk plus mspbefore 13.0
zohocorp manageengine servicedesk plus msp13.0
zohocorp manageengine supportcenter plusbefore 11.0
zohocorp manageengine supportcenter plus11.0

Same product

zohocorp: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2021-20110Due to Manage Engine Asset Explorer Agent 1.0.34 not validating HTTPS certificates, an attacker on the network can statically configure thei
41Plan
CVE-2023-26601Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus through 14104, Asset Explorer through 6987, ServiceDesk Plus MSP before 14000, and Support Center Plus be
40Plan
CVE-2019-12994Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) exists in Zoho ManageEngine AssetExplorer version 6.2.0 for the AJaxServlet servlet via a parameter in a
37Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2021-20109Jul 19, 2021 · Due to the Asset Explorer agent not validating HTTPS certificates, an attacker on the network can statically configure their IP address to m
30Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2023-23075Feb 1, 2023 · Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Zoho Asset Explorer 6.9 via the credential name when creating a new Assets Workstation.
25Monitor
Later →CVE-2023-29443Apr 26, 2023 · Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus before 14105, ServiceDesk Plus MSP before 14200, SupportCenter Plus before 14200, and AssetExplorer befor
20Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

TR-23-0132 · Mar 7, 2023(Zoho ManageEngine Güvenlik Zafiyeti)

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Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: none
Availability: none

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: None
Availability impact: None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd-primary

Root cause

To simplify setup, a service account is granted broad, cluster-wide permissions. The principle of least privilege is skipped during installation.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-269 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

yaml

1kind: ClusterRole
2rules:
3  - apiGroups: ["*"]
4    resources: ["*"]
5    verbs: ["*"]

Fixed

yaml

1kind: Role
2metadata:
3  namespace: lodos-system
4rules:
5  - apiGroups: ["apps"]
6    resources: ["deployments"]
7    verbs: ["get", "list", "update"]

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Abuse Elevation Control MechanismT1548

Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

manageengine.com

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www.manageengine.com/products/service-desk/CVE-2023-26600.html

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