CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2023-5972
High (7.8). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the nft_inner.c functionality of netfilter in the Linux kernel. This issue could allow a local user to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 20% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- fedoraproject:fedora
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5972
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248189
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/505ce0630ad5d31185695f8a29dde8d29f28faa7
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/52177bbf19e6e9398375a148d2e13ed492b40b80
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5972