CVE-2023-43789

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.02 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2023-10-12 Modified: 2026-11-07 First seen: 2026-11-07 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction Conf. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

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

Description

A vulnerability was found in libXpm where a vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition, a local user can trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (5)

VendorProductVersion
— — 0 < 3.5.17
fedoraproject fedora 38
libxpm_project libxpm < 3.5.17
redhat enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat enterprise_linux 9.0

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

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

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.36%
Raw Score 0.003640
Percentile 30.6%
Date 2026-11-13

EPSS Trend

2026-11-13
0.00364
2026-11-12
0.00364
2026-11-10
0.00364
2026-11-09
0.00364
2026-11-08
0.00364
2026-11-07
0.00364
2026-11-06
0.00364

Intelligence Sources

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