Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-28074

Memory Safety in Dell Bsafe Micro-Edition-Suite 4.0.0 – 4.6.2

Published
31 July 2024
Modified
20 August 2024
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 6.2
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0015 5th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2023-28074 is a medium-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Dell Bsafe Micro-Edition-Suite. Its CVSS base score is 6.2 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Dell BSAFE Crypto-C Micro Edition, version 4.1.5, and Dell BSAFE Micro Edition Suite, versions 4.0 through 4.6.1 and version 5.0, contains an Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Information exposure.

CWE(s)

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Affected Assets

dell
bsafe crypto-c-micro-edition
4.0.0 — 4.1.5
dell
bsafe micro-edition-suite
5.0 · 4.0.0 — 4.6.2

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure-development practices such as bounds checking and memory-safe languages directly prevent out-of-bounds reads.

ID.RA-01 partial match
prevents

Vulnerability scanning and recording can discover instances of out-of-bounds reads after code is deployed.

PR.PS-02 partial match
prevents

Routine patching replaces vulnerable code containing out-of-bounds read flaws.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

detects

Security testing in development and acceptance includes fuzzing and static analysis that detect out-of-bounds read defects before release.

A.8.15 Logging partial match
detects

Logging can record evidence of an out-of-bounds read but does not prevent the weakness itself.

prevents

Secure development life cycle mandates input validation and bounds checking that directly prevent out-of-bounds reads.

prevents

Application security requirements include explicit bounds and memory-safety specifications that mitigate buffer over-reads.

prevents

Secure system architecture and engineering principles require memory-safe design patterns and runtime protections against out-of-bounds access.

prevents

Secure coding standards explicitly forbid unsafe pointer arithmetic and mandate bounds-checked reads, eliminating CWE-125.

References