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CWE-923: Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints

Class Incomplete

The product establishes a communication channel to (or from) an endpoint for privileged or protected operations, but it does not properly ensure that it is communicating with the correct endpoint.

More detail

While this issue frequently involves authentication between network-based clients and servers, other types of communication channels and endpoints can have this weakness.

Source: MITRE CWE-923

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  • High 7.5

    Azure IoT Explorer Information Disclosure Vulnerability

    Improper restriction of communication channel to intended endpoints in Azure IoT Explorer allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information over a network.

  • Low 2.6

    A vulnerability has been identified in Heliox Flex 180 kW EV Charging Station (All versions < F4.11.1), Heliox Mobile D…

  • Medium 5.9

    VMware Workstation/Fusion NAT vulnerability

    VMWare Workstation and Fusion contain a logic flaw in the management of network packets.  Known attack vectors: A malicious actor with administrative privileges on a Guest VM may be able to interrupt or intercept network connections of other Guest VM's.  Reso…

  • High 8.5

    Insufficient Configuration Protections Enable Database Credential Interception in Milner ImageDirector Capture

    Insufficiently Protected Credentials, Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints vulnerability in the Connection Settings dialog in Milner ImageDirector Capture on Windows allows Adversary in the Middle (AiTM) by modifying the 'Server…

  • High 8.8

    Columbia Weather Systems MicroServer Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints

    An unused function in MicroServer can start a reverse SSH connection to a vendor registered domain, without mutual authentication. An attacker on the local network with admin access to the web server, and the ability to manipulate DNS responses, can redirect …

  • Medium 6.2

    NVIDIA RunAI for all platforms contains a vulnerability where a user could cause an improper restriction of communicati…

  • Medium 6.3

    International Standards Organization ISO 15118-2 Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints

    By manipulating the Signal Level Attenuation Characterization (SLAC) protocol with spoofed measurements, an attacker can stage a man-in-the-middle attack between an electric vehicle and chargers that comply with the ISO 15118-2 part. This vulnerability may be…

  • High 7.0

    PowerShell Direct Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

    Improper restriction of communication channel to intended endpoints in Windows PowerShell allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

  • Medium 6.7

    Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

    Improper restriction of communication channel to intended endpoints in Windows Hyper-V allows an authorized attacker to execute code locally.

  • High 7.1

    Improper restriction of communication channel to intended endpoints issue exists in UpdateNavi V1.4 L10 to L33 and Upda…

  • Low 3.0

    An improper restriction of communication channel to intended endpoints vulnerability [CWE-923] in FortiOS 7.6.0, 7.4.0 …

  • High 8.8

    Cisco Integrated Management Controller Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

    A vulnerability in the SSH connection handling of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) for Cisco UCS B-Series, UCS C-Series, UCS S-Series, and UCS X-Series Servers could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to access internal services with elevated…

  • Medium 6.8
    CVE-2025-48999 EPSS 11%

    Dataease Redshift Data Source JDBC Connection Parameters Not Verified Leads to RCE Vulnerability

    DataEase is an open source business intelligence and data visualization tool. A bypass of CVE-2025-46566's patch exists in versions prior to 2.10.10. In a malicious payload, `getUrlType()` retrieves `hostName`. Since the judgment statement returns false, it w…

  • Medium 6.8

    Dataease redshift JDBC Connection Remote Code Execution

    DataEase is an open-source BI tool alternative to Tableau. Prior to version 2.10.9, authenticated users can complete RCE through the backend JDBC link. This issue has been patched in version 2.10.9.

  • Medium 4.0

    An issue was discovered on goTenna v1 devices with app 5.5.3 and firmware 0.25.5. All packets sent over RF are also sen…

  • High 7.6

    Ribbon Communications - CWE-923: Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints

    CWE-923: Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints

  • Medium 5.8

    Quick Agent V3 and Quick Agent V2 contain an issue with improper restriction of communication channel to intended endpo…

  • High 7.1

    A improper restriction of communication channel to intended endpoints vulnerability [CWE-923] in Fortinet FortiOS versi…

  • High 8.3

    Dell Common Event Enabler, version(s) CEE 9.0.0.0, contain(s) an Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Inten…

  • Low 2.6

    Improper restriction of communication channel to intended endpoints in some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killerâ„¢…

  • Medium 6.8

    IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container improper communications restriction

    IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, and 12.7 Pods do not restrict network egress for Pods that are used for inte…

  • Medium 4.0

    IBM Fusion improper communication restriction

    IBM Fusion and IBM Fusion HCI 2.3.0 through 2.8.2 is vulnerable to insecure network connection by allowing an attacker who gains access to a Fusion container to establish an external network connection.

  • High 8.2

    Junos OS Evolved: ACX 7000 Series: Receipt of specific transit MPLS packets causes resources to be exhausted

    An Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on ACX 7000 Series allows an unauthenticated, network based attacker to cause increased consumption…

  • Medium 5.6

    Sudo for Windows Spoofing Vulnerability

    Sudo for Windows Spoofing Vulnerability

  • High 8.1

    Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints in goTenna Pro

    The goTenna Pro App does not authenticate public keys which allows an unauthenticated attacker to manipulate messages. It is advised to update your app to the current release for enhanced encryption protocols.

  • High 8.8

    Multiple Pimax products accept WebSocket connections from unintended endpoints. If this vulnerability is exploited, arb…

  • Medium 6.5

    Junos OS Evolved: ACX7000 Series: Ports which have been inadvertently exposed can be reached over the network

    An Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on ACX 7000 Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a limited information disclosure and availability impact to…

  • High 7.3

    In Docker Desktop before v4.29.0 an attacker who has gained access to the Docker Desktop VM through a container breakout can further escape to the host by passing extensions and dashboard related IPC messages

    In Docker Desktop before v4.29.0, an attacker who has gained access to the Docker Desktop VM through a container breakout can further escape to the host by passing extensions and dashboard related IPC messages. Docker Desktop v4.29.0 https://docs.docker.com/d…

  • High 7.5

    The interactive service in OpenVPN 2.6.9 and earlier allows the OpenVPN service pipe to be accessed remotely, which all…

  • Medium 6.3

    Improper restriction of communication channel to intended endpoints issue exists in Ricoh Streamline NX PC Client ver.3…

  • High 7.5

    Mullvad VPN through 2024.1 on Android does not set a DNS server in the blocking state (after a hard failure to create a…

  • High 8.4

    Element Android Intent Redirection

    Element Android is an Android Matrix Client. Element Android version 1.4.3 through 1.6.10 is vulnerable to intent redirection, allowing a third-party malicious application to start any internal activity by passing some extra parameters. Possible impact includ…

  • Critical 9.1

    Dell OS10 Networking Switches running 10.5.2.x and above contain a vulnerability with zeroMQ when VLT is configured. A …

  • Medium 5.4

    Junos OS Evolved: Packets which are not destined to the router can reach the RE

    An Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints vulnerability in the NetworkStack agent daemon (nsagentd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated network based attacker to cause limited impact to the availability …

  • High 7.1

    NVIDIA Jetson contains a vulnerability in CBoot, where the PCIe controller is initialized without IOMMU, which may allo…

  • Low 2.9

    FTP Agent forwards traffic on inactive ports to LinkManager

    Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints vulnerability in Secomea SiteManager (FTP Agent modules) allows Exploiting Trust in Client.

  • High 7.2

    Paragon Active Assurance: Enabling the timescaledb enables IP forwarding

    An Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints vulnerability in the timescaledb feature of Juniper Networks Paragon Active Assurance (PAA) (Formerly Netrounds) allows an attacker to bypass existing firewall rules and limitations used t…

  • Medium 5.0

    IP filter vulnerability in ABAP Platform and SAP Web Dispatcher

    The IP filter in ABAP Platform and SAP Web Dispatcher - versions WEBDISP 7.85, 7.89, KERNEL 7.85, 7.89, 7.91, may be vulnerable by erroneous IP netmask handling. This may enable access to backend applications from unwanted sources.

  • Medium 6.1

    coreDNS vulnerable to Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints

    A flaw was found in coreDNS. This flaw allows a malicious user to redirect traffic intended for external top-level domains (TLD) to a pod they control by creating projects and namespaces that match the TLD.

  • Medium 4.4

    coreDNS vulnerable to Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints

    A flaw was found in coreDNS. This flaw allows a malicious user to reroute internal calls to some internal services that were accessed by the FQDN in a format of <service>.<namespace>.svc.