CVE-2023-53602

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2025-10-04 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

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

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath11k: fix memory leak in WMI firmware stats Memory allocated for firmware pdev, vdev and beacon statistics are not released during rmmod. Fix it by calling ath11k_fw_stats_free() function before hardware unregister. While at it, avoid calling ath11k_fw_stats_free() while processing the firmware stats received in the WMI event because the local list is getting spliced and reinitialised and hence there are no elements in the list after splicing. Tested-on: QCN9074 hw1.0 PCI WLAN.HK.2.7.0.1-01744-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (5)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d < 86f9330a49d1464849482298dd34d361859183eb
Linux Linux d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d < 55248d36beb79d3a61c9fb3122dc377fff523c89
Linux Linux d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d < 6aafa1c2d3e3fea2ebe84c018003f2a91722e607
Linux Linux 5.6
linux linux_kernel 5.6 – 6.1.42

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:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.15%
Raw Score 0.001460
Percentile 3.9%
Date 2026-11-14

EPSS Trend

2026-11-14
0.00146
2026-11-13
0.00146
2026-11-12
0.00146
2026-11-10
0.00146
2026-11-09
0.00146
2026-11-08
0.00146
2026-11-07
0.00146
2026-11-06
0.00146
2026-11-05
0.00146

Intelligence Sources

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