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CVE-2023-46404

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.9)—PoC
Severity9.9Critical · CVSS 3.1
Exploitation probability2.27 %higher than 83% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitAvailableProof of concept on GitHub (unverified)

PCRS <= 3.11 (d0de1e) “Questions” page and “Code editor” page are vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE) by escaping Python sandboxing.

CVSS

Base score
9.9
Version
3.1
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
2.27 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
83
Score date
10/27/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

⚠️ GitHub proofs of concept are not verified: some are fake or contain malware. Never run them outside an isolated lab.

Affected technologies (1)

Utoronto — Pcrs

CWEs

References

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Raw JSON (NVD)

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