CVE-2023-45696 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Sametime is impacted by sensitive fields with autocomplete enabled in the Legacy web chat client. By default, this allows user entered data to be stored by the browser.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Physical

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00177.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

HCL Software

HCL Sametime

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`11.5, 11.6, 11.6 IF1, 12.0, 12.0 FP1, 12.0.1, 12.0.1 FP1`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:sametime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

No data.

Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Hcltech Subscribe	Sametime Subscribe

Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-49985	Sametime is impacted by sensitive fields with autocomplete enabled in the Legacy web chat client. By default, this allows user entered data to be stored by the browser.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0109082

History

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-524
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Hcltech Hcltech sametime
Weaknesses		NVD-CWE-noinfo
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:sametime::::::::
Vendors & Products		Hcltech Hcltech sametime

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: HCL

Published: 2024-02-10T03:10:30.423Z

Updated: 2025-06-03T18:54:13.238Z

Reserved: 2023-10-10T21:26:06.755Z

Link: CVE-2023-45696

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T20:29:31.199Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-02-10T03:15:07.907

Modified: 2025-06-03T19:15:33.710

Link: CVE-2023-45696

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

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