CVE-2023-53697: linux

CVSS: UnknownDeferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53697DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53697
Published 22-10-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-53697 is a vulnerability in linux with no CVSS score yet. EPSS estimates a 0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
0/100
0100
Minimal · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
0.21%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 13 · Related 12

Timeline

  1. 22-10-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvdimm: Fix memleak of pmu attr_groups in unregister_nvdimm_pmu() Memory pointed by 'nd_pmu->pmu.attr_groups' is allocated in function 'register_nvdimm_pmu' and is lost after 'kfree(nd_pmu)' call in function 'unregister_nvdimm_pmu'.

CVSS metrics

Risk metrics not yet published.

EPSS trend

Probability

0.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

11%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.20% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.21%

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

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Ubuntu83 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)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.55-1 | < 6.5.3-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 0fab1ba6ad6ba1f76380f92ead95c6e861ef8116, < 500a6ff9c2a81348fe0f04e2deb758145e8ab94e | ≥ 0fab1ba6ad6ba1f76380f92ead95c6e861ef8116, < 4999f2ec5fde7c45e3ecafda5b78560cc1c7bdb5 | ≥ 0fab1ba6ad6ba1f76380f92ead95c6e861ef8116, < 16259c80542ee8945aaa39cfc6a1809bcdc08ffe | ≥ 0fab1ba6ad6ba1f76380f92ead95c6e861ef8116, < 85ae42c72142346645e63c33835da947dfa008b3 | 5.18

3 vendors · 85 products

References

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