CVE-2023-1073

CVSS 6.6 MEDIUMEPSS 0.4%CWE-119

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 6.6EPSS 0.4%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

27 Mar 2023Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

A memory corruption flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s human interface device (HID) subsystem in how a user inserts a malicious USB device. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

n/a · kernel

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2173403 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/id=b12fece4c64857e5fab4290bf01b2e0317a88456 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00005.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00006.html https://www.openwall.com/lists/osssecurity/2023/01/17/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/05/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/05/3