Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-53157

Medium

Published: 28 July 2025

Published
28 July 2025
Modified
07 August 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0127 79.9th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-53157 is a medium-severity Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency (CWE-130) vulnerability in Rosenpass Rosenpass. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked in the top 20.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The rosenpass crate before 0.2.1 for Rust allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via a one-byte UDP packet.

CWE(s)
CWE-130

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation Impact
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users.
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Why these techniques?

The vulnerability enables remote attackers to trigger a process panic (DoS) via a crafted one-byte UDP packet due to improper buffer size validation, facilitating endpoint denial of service through application exploitation.

Affected Assets

rosenpass
rosenpass
≤ 0.2.1

Mitigating Controls

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

References