CVE-2023-53794
Aliases:UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53794DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53794
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 27
Deferred
Published: 09 Dec 2025, 00:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2026, 09:16
Vulnerability Summary
Overall Risk (default)
high
70/100 CVSS Score
9.8 CRITICAL
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.51% LOW
1% probability +0.49%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected
Timeline
09 Dec 2025, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2026, 09:16
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: fix session state check in reconnect to avoid use-after-free issue Don't collect exiting session in smb2_reconnect_server(), because it will be released soon. Note that the exiting session will stay in server->smb_ses_list until it complete the cifs_free_ipc() and logoff() and then delete itself from the list.
CVSS Metrics
- v3.1•CRITICAL•Score: 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Trends
Current EPSS score: 0.51%• Percentile: 43%
Affected Systems
- debian•linux
all | < 6.1.52-1 | < 6.4.13-1 | < 6.4.13-1
- ubuntu•linux
all | all
- ubuntu•linux-allwinner-5.19
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws
all | all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.0
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.11
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.13
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.15
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.19
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.3
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.4
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.8
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-6.2
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-6.5
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-fips
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-hwe
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure
all | all | all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-4.15
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.11
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.13
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.15
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.19
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.3
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.4
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.8
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-6.11
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-6.2
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-6.5
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-edge
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fde
all | all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fde-5.15
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fde-5.19
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fde-6.2
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fips
all
- ubuntu•linux-bluefield
all | all
- ubuntu•linux-fips
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp
all | all | all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-4.15
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.11
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.13
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.15
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.19
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.3
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.4
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.8
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-6.11
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-6.2
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-6.5
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-fips
all
- ubuntu•linux-gke
all | all
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References (7)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e4f5c3f01fb0e51ca438e43262d858daf9a0a76
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/759ffc164d95a32c09528766d74d9b4fb054e8f4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99f280700b4cc02d5f141b8d15f8e9fad0418f65
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-53794
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53794
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/99f280700b4cc02d5f141b8d15f8e9fad0418f65
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-53794