CVE-2023-5197

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-416 Use After Free

Publication date:

27/09/2023

Last modified:

11/12/2025

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel&#39;s netfilter: nf_tables component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.<br /> <br /> Addition and removal of rules from chain bindings within the same transaction causes leads to use-after-free.<br /> <br /> We recommend upgrading past commit f15f29fd4779be8a418b66e9d52979bb6d6c2325.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.9.0 (including)	5.10.198 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.134 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.56 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.5.6 (excluding)

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CVE-2023-5197

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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