Threats / Novi Survey / CVE-2023-29492
CVE-2023-29492
· EUVD no mirror located
· GCVE no mirror located
Verified 2026-06-22
Novi Survey vulnerability
Novi Survey contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability allowing remote code execution in the service account context.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
Remote attackers can exploit insecure deserialization to execute arbitrary code on affected Novi Survey instances. The vulnerability has been observed in active exploitation.
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreReported exploitation
3 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-04-13).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.0269 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
Affected: Novi Survey, Novi Survey. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-94 Code Injection — weakness family: Injection.CWE assignment from the public NVD record; the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I craft a malicious serialized object and send it to the Novi Survey application.
Business
The application deserializes untrusted data without validation, instantiating attacker-controlled code.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I achieve remote code execution with the privileges of the service account running Novi Survey.
Business
Attackers gain unauthorized access to survey data, system resources, and potentially lateral movement within the network.
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Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I establish persistence or exfiltrate sensitive information from the compromised server.
Business
Confidentiality and integrity of survey data are compromised; operational continuity is disrupted.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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