CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-4244

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.23%

14th percentile - higher than 14% of all known CVEs

Summary

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter: nf_tables component is caused by a race condition between netlink control plane transaction and nft_set element garbage collection. Reference counter underflow leads to use-after-free, exploitable for local privilege escalation.

Risk Assessment

A local attacker can escalate privileges to root, leading to full system compromise and breach of all security aspects.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing commit 3e91b0ebd994635df2346353322ac51ce84ce6d8 or later.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter: nf_tables component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. Due to a race condition between nf_tables netlink control plane transaction and nft_set element garbage collection, it is possible to underflow the reference counter causing a use-after-free vulnerability. We recommend upgrading past commit 3e91b0ebd994635df2346353322ac51ce84ce6d8.

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