CVE-2023-52077 — Nexkey is a lightweight fork of Misskey v12 optimized for small to medium size s

Nexkey is a lightweight fork of Misskey v12 optimized for small to medium size servers. Prior to 12.23Q4.5, Nexkey allows external apps using tokens issued by administrators and moderators to call admin APIs. This allows malicious third-party apps to perform operations such as up

01What is this vulnerability?

Nexkey is a lightweight fork of Misskey v12 optimized for small to medium size servers. Prior to 12.23Q4.5, Nexkey allows external apps using tokens issued by administrators and moderators to call admin APIs. This allows malicious third-party apps to perform operations such as updating server settings, as well as compromise object storage and email server credentials. This issue has been patched…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
nexryai	nexkey	< 12.23Q4.5

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-12-27T18:45:50.408Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T22:48:12.128Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/nexryai/nexkey/security/advisories/GHSA-pjj7-7hcj-9cpc
• github.com — https://github.com/mei23/misskey-v12/commit/78173e376f14fcc1987b02196f5538bf5b18…
• github.com — https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey/commit/5150053275594278e9eb23e72d98b16593…
• github.com — https://github.com/nexryai/nexkey/commit/a4e4c9c47c5f84ec7ccd309bde59d4ae5d7e5a9…