Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in Nautobot - CVE-2023-51649

 

Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in Nautobot - CVE-2023-51649

Published: December 22, 2023 / Updated: May 11, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU130962
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-51649
CWE-ID: CWE-1220
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Nautobot
Affected software:
Nautobot

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote user to cause a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to improper access control in the Job Button run view when handling requests to run Job Buttons. A remote user can invoke the job-button run endpoint for unauthorized jobs to cause a denial of service.

Only Jobs implemented as subclasses of JobButtonReceiver are affected.


How to mitigate CVE-2023-51649

Install security update from vendor's website.

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