CVE-2023-38198

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2023-38198 · Published 13/07/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-38198 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting acme.sh (acme.sh project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.1%, higher than 65.2% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 3.0.6 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
acme.sh acme.sh_project	`< 3.0.6`	`3.0.6`

acme.sh before 3.0.6 runs arbitrary commands from a remote server via eval, as exploited in the wild in June 2023.

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