CVE-2023-54391

Critical

Description

Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 7.0 through 8.0 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in libpve-access-control before 8.0.4 that allows unauthenticated attackers to authenticate as any existing enabled user without a configured second factor by supplying an arbitrary tfa-challenge value in the API login endpoint. Attackers can send a POST request to the access ticket API endpoint with any value in the tfa-challenge parameter to completely skip password verification, gaining unauthorized access including to the root@pam account. All affected releases are end of life.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.8
Exploit probability—
ProductProxmox Virtual Environment (VE)
PublishedSep 1, 2026
First seenSep 1, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-304CWE-304

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE)7.0 ≤ v ≤ 7.4, 8.0—

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