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CVE-2023-6368: WhatsUp Gold Unauthenticated Access to an API Endpoint

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 21/100)

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: 0.55% (FIRST EPSS).
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: Progress Software Corporation WhatsUp Gold 2023.1.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Progress Software Corporation WhatsUp Gold 2023.1 or later.

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

In WhatsUp Gold versions released before 2023.1, an API endpoint was found to be missing an authentication mechanism. It is possible for an unauthenticated attacker to enumerate information related to a registered device being monitored by WhatsUp Gold.

MediumCVSS 5.3 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Published: Dec 14, 2023
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.5% · 46th percentile
CWE: CWE-306

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 21 / 40 · 5.3 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.5%

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 5.3
CNA · ProgressSoftware: 5.9; 0.6 point gap

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

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
progress	whatsup gold	cpe:2.3:a:progress:whatsup_gold

Affected versions

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

progress whatsup goldbefore 23.1.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (ProgressSoftware). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Progress Software Corporation WhatsUp Gold
- 2023.0 and later · before 2023.1affected · semver
- 2022.0 and later · up to and including 2022.1affected · semver

Same product

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Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2023-6366Dec 14, 2023 · WhatsUp Gold Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Alert Center
21Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2023-6367Dec 14, 2023 · WhatsUp Gold Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Roles
21Monitor
Later →CVE-2023-6595Dec 14, 2023 · WhatsUp Gold Unauthenticated Access to an API Endpoint
21Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Progress Software Corporation WhatsUp Gold	2023.1	Vendor (CNA)

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

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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

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Colin Sullivan on behalfGE Vernovafinder

Variant candidates

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

CVE-2024-12106383 days apartWhatsUp Gold - LDAP configuration interface leading to allowing attacker to configure LDAP settings without authentication
33Monitor
CVE-2023-65950 days apartWhatsUp Gold Unauthenticated Access to an API Endpoint
21Monitor

Chain candidates

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

CVE-2024-4562152 days apartWhatsUp Gold Server-Side Request Forgery Information Disclosure Vulnerability via HttpMonitorSettings
21Monitor

Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

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

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
No account or password is required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

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

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

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-306 · Missing Authentication for Critical Function

CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Root cause

A function added for development or support ships to production without authentication. It often relies on the assumption that it is “only reachable from the internal network.”

The bug in code

The whole CWE-306 class

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

Vulnerable

1// Added for the support team
2app.post("/maintenance/reset", resetDevice);

Fixed

1if (config.maintenanceEnabled) {
2  app.post(
3    "/maintenance/reset",
4    requireSession, requireRole("admin"), resetDevice
5  );
6}

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC

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References

community.progress.com/s/article/WhatsUp-Gold-Security-Bulletin-December-2023

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www.progress.com/network-monitoring

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