CVE-2023-3777

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 45
Analyzed
Published: 06 Sept 2023, 13:50
Last modified:13 Feb 2025, 17:01

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
31/100
CVSS Score
7.8 HIGH
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.04% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

06 Sept 2023, 13:50
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
13 Feb 2025, 17:01
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter: nf_tables component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. When nf_tables_delrule() is flushing table rules, it is not checked whether the chain is bound and the chain's owner rule can also release the objects in certain circumstances. We recommend upgrading past commit 6eaf41e87a223ae6f8e7a28d6e78384ad7e407f8.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 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: 0.04%• Percentile: 11%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-416•Use 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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    14.04 | 16.04 | 18.04 | 20.04 | 22.04

  • debian•debian_linux

    12.0

  • Unknown•Kernel

    ≥ 5.9, < 6.5

  • linux•linux_kernel

    ≥ 5.9, < 5.10.188 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.123 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.42 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.4.7

References (5)