CVE-2023-0972
Published: 21 June 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-0972 is a critical-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Silabs Z\/Ip Gateway Sdk. Its CVSS base score is 9.6 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked at the 17.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-12957
Vulnerability details
Description: A vulnerability in SiLabs Z/IP Gateway 7.18.01 and earlier allows an unauthenticated attacker within Z-Wave range to overflow a stack buffer, leading to arbitrary code execution.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Memory protections (e.g., W^X, ASLR) make exploitation of buffer-boundary violations far harder to turn into code execution.
Ongoing control assessments and code testing (static/dynamic analysis, fuzzing) surface memory buffer restriction failures, which are then remediated before release.
Managed runtimes used by platform-independent applications (e.g., JVM, CLR) enforce memory safety, preventing most buffer overflows that require direct memory manipulation.
Detects exploitation attempts that produce memory corruption, crashes, or anomalous behavior.