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CVE record · CVE-2023-1998

Spectre v2 SMT mitigations problem in Linux kernel

CVSS 5.6 MediumEPSS 0.014 · 72nd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Google) at 21 Apr 2023, 14:51 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux Kernel Package name: kernel https://git.kernel.org/
  • affected before 6.3 custom
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2023-1998
CNA
Google
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-1303
Tags
Published
21 Apr 2023
Updated
13 Feb 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
5.6 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N CNA (Google)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.014, the 72nd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 21 Apr 2023. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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