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Public proof of concept

CVE-2023-25261

A public proof of concept exists; no exploitation attested.

  • Published2023-03-27
  • WeaknessCWE-94

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Description

Certain Stimulsoft GmbH products are affected by: Remote Code Execution. This affects Stimulsoft Designer (Desktop) 2023.1.4 and Stimulsoft Designer (Web) 2023.1.3 and Stimulsoft Viewer (Web) 2023.1.3. Access to the local file system is not prohibited in any way. Therefore, an attacker may include source code which reads or writes local directories and files. It is also possible for the attacker to prepare a report which has a variable that holds the gathered data and render it in the report.

Timeline

dates in UTC
  1. 2023-03-2721:15CVE publishedNVD
  2. 2026-10-2319:23First public proof of conceptPoC-in-GitHub

Observed activity

isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 18:48 UTC
Indicators tagged with this CVE, per day0 indicators over 7 days
Block these indicators
  • Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2023-25261?format=txt
  • CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2023-25261?format=csv
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Versions per branch

NVD
Stimulsoft designer
BranchAffectedFixed in
2023.1= 2023.1no fix published
2023.1= 2023.1.3no fix published
2023.1= 2023.1.4no fix published
Stimulsoft viewer
BranchAffectedFixed in
2023.1= 2023.1.3no fix published
2023.1= 2023.1.4no fix published

as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.

Fix

No fix published by the sources we read yet. NVD record

Detection

read 2026-10-23 19:23 UTC
Nuclei template
none so far
ProjectDiscovery
Exploit-DB
no entry
Exploit-DB
Proof-of-concept repositories
1 repository, unverifiedtrustcves/CVE-2023-25261
PoC-in-GitHub

Sources

Technical details

CVSS v3 Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
2023-03-27
Last Modified
2026-07-09
NVD status
Modified

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-25261?

Certain Stimulsoft GmbH products are affected by: Remote Code Execution. This affects Stimulsoft Designer (Desktop) 2023.1.4 and Stimulsoft Designer (Web) 2023.1.3 and Stimulsoft Viewer (Web) 2023.1.3. Access to the local file system is not prohibited in any way. Therefore, an attacker may include source code which reads or writes local directories and files. It is also possible for the attacker to prepare a report which has a variable that holds the gathered data and render it in the report.

Is CVE-2023-25261 actively exploited?

A proof-of-concept exploit exists for CVE-2023-25261, but active exploitation has not been confirmed at this time.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2023-25261?

CVE-2023-25261 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL severity), with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

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