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CVE-2023-53392: HID: intel-ish-hid: Fix kernel panic during warm reset

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53392DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53392
Published 18-09-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-53392 is a high (CVSS 7.1) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 7.1, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.1/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.15%
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 2
RHSA-2023:6583RHSA-2024:3138

Timeline

  1. 18-09-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: intel-ish-hid: Fix kernel panic during warm reset During warm reset device->fw_client is set to NULL. If a bus driver is registered after this NULL setting and before new firmware clients are enumerated by ISHTP, kernel panic will result in the function ishtp_cl_bus_match(). This is because of reference to device->fw_client->props.protocol_name. ISH firmware after getting successfully loaded, sends a warm reset notification to remove all clients from the bus and sets device->fw_client to NULL. Until kernel v5.15, all enabled ISHTP kernel module drivers were loaded right after any of the first ISHTP device was registered, regardless of whether it was a matched or an unmatched device. This resulted in all drivers getting registered much before the warm reset notification from ISH. Starting kernel v5.16, this issue got exposed after the change was introduced to load only bus drivers for the respective matching devices. In this scenario, cros_ec_ishtp device and cros_ec_ishtp driver are registered after the warm reset device fw_client NULL setting. cros_ec_ishtp driver_register() triggers the callback to ishtp_cl_bus_match() to match ISHTP driver to the device and causes kernel panic in guid_equal() when dereferencing fw_client NULL pointer to get protocol_name.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.15%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

4%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.15% 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.

Ubuntu86 products
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.13All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 44e2a58cb8803e3e40eaf5708c4d15b4118913c4, < 6c8cc40c588f8080a164d88336b1490279e0f1da | ≥ 44e2a58cb8803e3e40eaf5708c4d15b4118913c4, < 45b9055a3a3ff6e8c08faad82ea36a8644a81587 | ≥ 44e2a58cb8803e3e40eaf5708c4d15b4118913c4, < 38518593ec55e897abda4b4be77b2ec8ec4447d1 | 5.16
  • linux_kernelEOL≥ 5.16.1, < 6.1.25 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.2.12 | 5.16 | 5.16:rc3 | 5.16:rc4 | 5.16:rc5 | 5.16:rc6 | 5.16:rc7 | 5.16:rc8 | 6.3:rc1 | 6.3:rc2 | 6.3:rc3 | 6.3:rc4 | 6.3:rc5 | 6.3:rc6
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.25-1

3 vendors · 89 products

References

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