Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-53069

Medium

Published: 02 May 2025

Published
02 May 2025
Modified
12 November 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0013 32.3th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-53069 is a medium-severity Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime (CWE-401) vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 32.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-vf: Add missing free for alloc_percpu Add the free_percpu for the allocated "vf->hw.lmt_info" in order to avoid memory leak, same as the "pf->hw.lmt_info" in `drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_pf.c`.

CWE(s)
CWE-401

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

linux
linux kernel
5.14, 6.3 · 5.14.1 — 5.15.105 · 5.16 — 6.1.22 · 6.2 — 6.2.9

Mitigating Controls

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

References