Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-1390

High

Published: 16 March 2023

Published
16 March 2023
Modified
23 April 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0038 59.8th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-1390 is a high-severity Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop (CWE-1050) vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 40.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A remote denial of service vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s TIPC kernel module. The while loop in tipc_link_xmit() hits an unknown state while attempting to parse SKBs, which are not in the queue. Sending two small UDP packets…

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to a system with a UDP bearer results in the CPU utilization for the system to instantly spike to 100%, causing a denial of service condition.

CWE(s)
CWE-1050NVD-CWE-Other

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

linux
linux kernel
5.11 · 4.3 — 4.9.253 · 4.10 — 4.14.217 · 4.15 — 4.19.170

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References