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CVE-2023-43788

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.02 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2023-10-10 Modified: 2026-11-07 First seen: 2026-11-07 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Auth Conf. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: Required
S: Unchanged
C: High
I: None
A: None

Description

A vulnerability was found in libXpm due to a boundary condition within the XpmCreateXpmImageFromBuffer() function. This flaw allows a local attacker to trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read the contents of memory on the system.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (7)

VendorProductVersion
— — 0 < 3.5.17
fedoraproject fedora 37
fedoraproject fedora 38
fedoraproject fedora 39
redhat enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat enterprise_linux 9.0
x.org libxpm < 3.5.17

References & Advisories (12)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242248
Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.38%
Raw Score 0.003800
Percentile 32.5%
Date 2026-11-13

EPSS Trend

2026-11-13
0.00380
2026-11-12
0.00380
2026-11-10
0.00380
2026-11-09
0.00380
2026-11-08
0.00380
2026-11-07
0.00380
2026-11-06
0.00380

Intelligence Sources

mitre ref →
nvd ref →

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