4.5

CVE-2023-52890: ntfs-3g

Deferred
AliasesMGASA-2024-0284SUSE-SU-2024:2074-1SUSE-SU-2024:2187-1
Published 13-06-2024Last modified 09-12-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-52890 is a medium (CVSS 4.5) vulnerability in ntfs-3g. EPSS estimates a 0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 4.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
4.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.16%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1
USN-8192-1

Timeline

  1. 13-06-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 09-12-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

NTFS-3G before 75dcdc2 has a use-after-free in ntfs_uppercase_mbs in libntfs-3g/unistr.c. NOTE: discussion suggests that exploitation would be challenging.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.16%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

5%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.16% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Suse5 products
  • ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP6< 2022.5.17-150000.3.21.1
  • ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP6< 2022.5.17-150000.3.21.1
  • ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5< 2022.5.17-5.20.1
  • ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP5< 2022.5.17-5.20.1
  • ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP5< 2022.5.17-150000.3.21.1
Opensuse3 products
  • ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.5< 2022.5.17-150000.3.21.1
  • ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.6< 2022.5.17-150000.3.21.1
  • ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 2022.10.3-4.1
Debian1 product
  • ntfs-3g< 1:2022.10.3-1+deb12u1 | < 1:2022.10.3-3
Mageia1 product
  • ntfs-3g< 2022.10.3-1.1.mga9
Ubuntu1 product
  • ntfs-3gAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 1:2021.8.22-3ubuntu1.3 | < 1:2022.10.3-1.2ubuntu3.1

5 vendors · 11 products

References

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