CVE-2023-40362 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in CentralSquare Click2Gov Building Permit before October 2023. Lack of access control protections allows remote attackers to arbitrarily delete the contractors from any user's account when the user ID and contractor information is known.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0478.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Centralsquare Subscribe	Click2gov Building Permit Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-44933	An issue was discovered in CentralSquare Click2Gov Building Permit before October 2023. Lack of access control protections allows remote attackers to arbitrarily delete the contractors from any user's account when the user ID and contractor information is known.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/ally-petitt/CVE-2023-40362
https://www.classaction.org/news/centralsquare-hit-with-class-action-over-2017-2018-click2gov-data-breach

History

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-01-12T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-06-20T16:37:59.402Z

Reserved: 2023-08-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-40362

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T18:31:53.479Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-12T08:15:43.467

Modified: 2025-06-20T17:15:31.800

Link: CVE-2023-40362

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-862

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