CVE-2023-54391 PUBLISHED

Proxmox VE 7.0-8.0 Authentication Bypass via tfa-challenge Parameter

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 01.09.2026 Published: 01.09.2026 Updated: 02.09.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.3

Product Status

Vendor Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH
Product Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE)
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 7.0 to 7.4 (incl.)
  • Version 8.0 is affected

Credits

  • Kamil Rakowski finder
  • Nathan Xavier Golez finder
  • Sagnik Sasmal finder

References

Problem Types

  • Missing Critical Step in Authentication CWE