CVE-2023-4956: Quay: clickjacking on config-editor page severity

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-11-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-1021

Description

A flaw was found in Quay. Clickjacking is when an attacker uses multiple transparent or opaque layers to trick a user into clicking on a button or link on another page when they intend to click on the top-level page. During the pentest, it has been detected that the config-editor page is vulnerable to clickjacking. This flaw allows an attacker to trick an administrator user into clicking on buttons on the config-editor panel, possibly reconfiguring some parts of the Quay instance.

Affected products

Red Hat Quay 3: 3.0.0

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4956
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238886
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4956
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238886

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