Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-4020

Critical

Published: 15 December 2023

Published
15 December 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0022 44.6th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-4020 is a critical-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Silabs Gecko Software Development Kit. Its CVSS base score is 9.0 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 44.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An unvalidated input in a library function responsible for communicating between secure and non-secure memory in Silicon Labs TrustZone implementation allows reading/writing of memory in the secure region of memory from the non-secure region of memory.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

silabs
gecko software development kit
1.0.0 — 4.4.0

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-787

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

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