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CVE-2023-40828

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-08-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

An issue in pf4j pf4j v.3.9.0 and before allows a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information and execute arbitrary code via the expandIfZip method in the extract function.

Affected products

• Pf4J Project Pf4J: through 3.9.0

References

• https://github.com/pf4j/pf4j/commit/8e0aa198c4e652cfc1eb9e05ca9b64397f67cc72
• https://github.com/pf4j/pf4j/pull/537
• https://github.com/pf4j/pf4j/pull/538
• https://github.com/pf4j/pf4j/commit/8e0aa198c4e652cfc1eb9e05ca9b64397f67cc72
• https://github.com/pf4j/pf4j/pull/537
• https://github.com/pf4j/pf4j/pull/538

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