CVE-2023-33981

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-05-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-354

Description

Briar before 1.4.22 allows attackers to spoof other users' messages in a blog, forum, or private group, but each spoofed message would need to be an exact duplicate of a legitimate message displayed alongside the spoofed one.

Affected products

Briarproject Briar: before 1.4.22 — fixed in 1.4.22

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Briarproject Briar 1.4.22. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://briarproject.org/news/2023-three-security-issues-found-and-fixed/
https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/infk/inst-infsec/appliedcrypto/education/theses/report_YuanmingSong.pdf
https://briarproject.org/news/2023-three-security-issues-found-and-fixed/
https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/infk/inst-infsec/appliedcrypto/education/theses/report_YuanmingSong.pdf

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