Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-21504

Medium

Published: 04 May 2023

Published
04 May 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0071 72.7th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-21504 is a medium-severity Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) vulnerability in Samsung Android. Its CVSS base score is 5.6 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 27.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Potential buffer overflow vulnerability in mm_Plmncoordination.c in Shannon baseband prior to SMR May-2023 Release 1 allows remote attackers to cause invalid memory access.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

samsung
android
11.0, 12.0, 13.0

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.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and developer training directly verify and enforce proper input validation, reducing exploitability of injection and malformed-data weaknesses.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and evaluation at multiple SDLC stages directly detects missing or flawed input validation, with the required remediation process ensuring fixes are applied.

addresses: CWE-120

Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.

addresses: CWE-20

Directly implements checks on information inputs to reject invalid data before processing.

addresses: CWE-20

Spam protection mechanisms perform filtering and detection on inbound/outbound messages, directly compensating for missing or weak input validation of unsolicited content.

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