5.5

CVE-2023-53174: linux

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53174DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53174
Published 15-09-2025Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-53174 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.16%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 15 · Related 15
SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1SUSE-SU-2025:03614-1SUSE-SU-2025:03615-1SUSE-SU-2025:03628-1SUSE-SU-2025:03634-1SUSE-SU-2025:20851-1

Timeline

  1. 15-09-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: core: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails If device_add() returns error, the name allocated by dev_set_name() needs be freed. As the comment of device_add() says, put_device() should be used to decrease the reference count in the error path. So fix this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanp().

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 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

0.00 pp

From 0.16% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.16%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu123 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.4.0-169.187 | < 5.15.0-91.101
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.4.0-1116.126 | < 5.15.0-1051.56
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ ee959b00c335d7780136c5abda37809191fe52c3, < 63956ad27a6882f01fea7c69e17823090f4c7b3f | ≥ ee959b00c335d7780136c5abda37809191fe52c3, < 06c5340858011aa1195aec43a776e3185fbf7f56 | ≥ ee959b00c335d7780136c5abda37809191fe52c3, < e12fac07f61caac9c5b186d827658b3470787619 | ≥ ee959b00c335d7780136c5abda37809191fe52c3, < aa9a76d5ffdecd3b52ac333eb89361b0c9fe04e8 | ≥ ee959b00c335d7780136c5abda37809191fe52c3, < 6bc7f4c8c27d526f968788b8a985896755b1df35 | ≥ ee959b00c335d7780136c5abda37809191fe52c3, < b191ff1f075c4875f11271cbf0093e6e044a12aa | ≥ ee959b00c335d7780136c5abda37809191fe52c3, < 43c0e16d0c5ec59398b405f4c4aa5a076e656c3f | ≥ ee959b00c335d7780136c5abda37809191fe52c3, < 04b5b5cb0136ce970333a9c6cec7e46adba1ea3a | 2.6.26
  • linux_kernel≥ 2.6.26, < 4.14.323 | ≥ 4.15, < 4.19.292 | ≥ 4.20, < 5.4.254 | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.191 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.127 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.46 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.4.11 | 6.5:rc1 | 6.5:rc2 | 6.5:rc3 | 6.5:rc4 | 6.5:rc5
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.52-1 | < 6.4.11-1

3 vendors · 126 products

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