Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-29417

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 06 April 2023

Published
06 April 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0029 52.7th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-29417 is a medium-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Bzip3 Project Bzip3. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 47.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue was discovered in libbzip3.a in bzip3 1.2.2. There is a bz3_decompress out-of-bounds read in certain situations where buffers passed to bzip3 do not contain enough space to be filled with decompressed data. NOTE: the vendor's perspective is that…

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the observed behavior can only occur for a contract violation, and thus the report is invalid.

CWE(s)
CWE-125

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

bzip3 project
bzip3
1.2.2

Mitigating Controls

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

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