CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-3090

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.50%

39th percentile - higher than 39% of all known CVEs

Summary

CVE-2023-3090 describes a heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux Kernel ipvlan network driver that can be exploited for local privilege escalation.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to unauthorized access to the system, posing a significant security risk to the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade past commit 90cbed5247439a966b645b34eb0a2e037836ea8e.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

A heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux Kernel ipvlan network driver can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. The out-of-bounds write is caused by missing skb->cb initialization in the ipvlan network driver. The vulnerability is reachable if CONFIG_IPVLAN is enabled. We recommend upgrading past commit 90cbed5247439a966b645b34eb0a2e037836ea8e.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS