Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-4257

HighPublic PoC

Published: 13 October 2023

Published
13 October 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0043 63.2th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-4257 is a high-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Zephyrproject Zephyr. Its CVSS base score is 7.6 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 36.8% 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

Unchecked user input length in /subsys/net/l2/wifi/wifi_shell.c can cause buffer overflows.

CWE(s)
CWE-120CWE-131

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

zephyrproject
zephyr
≤ 3.4.0

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.

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