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CVE record · CVE-2023-5972

Kernel: the nfta_inner_num and nfta_expr_name netlink attributes accessed without checking its presence in nft_inner.c

CVSS 7.0 HighEPSS 0.0028 · 20th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 23 Nov 2023, 17:21 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
Not given kernel No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Package name: kernel https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: kernel https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: kernel-rt https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: kernel https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: kernel-rt https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: kernel https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: kernel-rt https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Fedora Fedora Package name: kernel https://packages.fedoraproject.org/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2023-5972
CNA
redhat
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-476
Tags
Published
23 Nov 2023
Updated
2 Aug 2024

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.0 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (redhat)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0028, the 20th 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 23 Nov 2023. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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