CVE-2023-3390

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 57
Modified
Published: 28 Jun 2023, 20:02
Last modified:13 Feb 2025, 16:55

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
31/100
CVSS Score
7.8 HIGH
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.1% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

28 Jun 2023, 20:02
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
13 Feb 2025, 16:55
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's netfilter subsystem in net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c. Mishandled error handling with NFT_MSG_NEWRULE makes it possible to use a dangling pointer in the same transaction causing a use-after-free vulnerability. This flaw allows a local attacker with user access to cause a privilege escalation issue. We recommend upgrading past commit 1240eb93f0616b21c675416516ff3d74798fdc97.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1HIGHScore: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.10% Percentile: 28%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-416Use After Free

    The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Systems

  • linuxlinux_kernel

    ≥ 3.16, < 6.4 | ≥ 3.16, < 4.14.322 | ≥ 4.15, < 4.19.291 | ≥ 4.20, < 5.4.251 | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.188 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.118 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.35 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.3.9

  • netapph300s_firmware

    na

  • netapph410c_firmware

    na

  • netapph410s_firmware

    na

  • netapph500s_firmware

    na

  • netapph700s_firmware

    na

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