Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-2686

Critical

Published: 15 June 2023

Published
15 June 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0017 38.1th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-2686 is a critical-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Silabs Gecko Software Development Kit. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 38.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Buffer overflow in Wi-Fi Commissioning MicriumOS example in Silicon Labs Gecko SDK v4.2.3 or earlier allows connected device to write payload onto the stack.

CWE(s)
CWE-120

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

silabs
gecko software development kit
≤ 4.2.3

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.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-120

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

References