In JetBrains TeamCity before 2023.05.4 authentication bypass leading to RCE on TeamCity Server was possible
CVE-2023-42793
Score elevated to 9.8 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-10-04), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8(high)
- EG Risk
- 99(Act)EG Risk 99/100SSVC: Act
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity98% × 45%Exploitation100% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%Action: Fix now — active exploitation, automatable, high impact. - EPSS PROB
- 100%
- EPSS %ILE
- 100%
- KEV
- ⚠ Exploited
Published
September 19, 2023
Last Modified
June 17, 2026
Advisory Details (6)
Auto-updated Sep 7, 2026CVE-2023-42793 Vulnerability in TeamCity: Post-Mortem - The JetBrains Blog
https://blog.jetbrains.com/teamcity/2023/09/cve-2023-42793-vulnerability-post-mortem/CVE-2023-42793: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel | Rapid7 Vulnerability Database
https://attackerkb.com/topics/1XEEEkGHzt/cve-2023-42793Packet Storm Security
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174860/JetBrains-TeamCity-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlSource Code at Risk: Critical Code Vulnerability in CI/CD Platform TeamCity | Sonar
https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/teamcity-vulnerability/Recently Patched TeamCity Vulnerability Exploited to Hack Servers - SecurityWeek
https://www.securityweek.com/recently-patched-teamcity-vulnerability-exploited-to-hack-servers/Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
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Publicly available exploits
(7 references)Working exploit code is in the public domain (1 Metasploit module) (4 GitHub PoCs) (1 Exploit-DB entry). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.
- GitHub PoCB4l3rI0n/CVE-2023-42793First seen Apr 24, 2024
JetBrains TeamCity 2023.05.3 - Remote Code Execution (RCE), CVE-2023-42793
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoChotplugin0x01/CVE-2023-42793First seen Apr 21, 2024
JetBrains TeamCity Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution - Python3 Implementation
Open source ↗ - Exploit-DBEDB-51884First seen Mar 14, 2024
JetBrains TeamCity 2023.05.3 - Remote Code Execution (RCE)
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCZenmovie/CVE-2023-42793First seen Oct 5, 2023
PoC of CVE-2023-42793
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCH454NSec/CVE-2023-42793First seen Sep 29, 2023
JetBrains TeamCity Authentication Bypass CVE-2023-42793 Exploit
Open source ↗ - Metasploitexploit/multi/http/jetbrains_teamcity_rce_cve_2023_42793✓ verifiedFirst seen Sep 19, 2023
JetBrains TeamCity Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Open source ↗ - Nucleihttp/cves/2023/CVE-2023-42793.yamlFirst seen Jan 1, 2023
JetBrains TeamCity < 2023.05.4 - Remote Code Execution
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