Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-31029

Critical

Published: 12 January 2024

Published
12 January 2024
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0018 39.4th percentile
Risk Priority 19 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-31029 is a critical-severity Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121) vulnerability in Nvidia Dgx A100 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.3 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 39.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

NVIDIA DGX A100 baseboard management controller (BMC) contains a vulnerability in the host KVM daemon, where an unauthenticated attacker may cause a stack overflow by sending a specially crafted network packet. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to…

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arbitrary code execution, denial of service, information disclosure, and data tampering.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

nvidia
dgx a100 firmware
≤ 00.22.05

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-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

References