CVE-2023-53670

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2025-10-07 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: nvme-core: fix dev_pm_qos memleak Call dev_pm_qos_hide_latency_tolerance() in the error unwind patch to avoid following kmemleak:- blktests (master) # kmemleak-clear; ./check nvme/044; blktests (master) # kmemleak-scan ; kmemleak-show nvme/044 (Test bi-directional authentication) [passed] runtime 2.111s ... 2.124s unreferenced object 0xffff888110c46240 (size 96): comm "nvme", pid 33461, jiffies 4345365353 (age 75.586s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<0000000069ac2cec>] kmalloc_trace+0x25/0x90 [<000000006acc66d5>] dev_pm_qos_update_user_latency_tolerance+0x6f/0x100 [<00000000cc376ea7>] nvme_init_ctrl+0x38e/0x410 [nvme_core] [<000000007df61b4b>] 0xffffffffc05e88b3 [<00000000d152b985>] 0xffffffffc05744cb [<00000000f04a4041>] vfs_write+0xc5/0x3c0 [<00000000f9491baf>] ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0 [<000000001c46513d>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [<00000000ecf348fe>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (6)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux f50fff73d620cd6e8f48bc58d4f1c944615a3fea < e1379e067b9485e5af03399fe3f0d39bccb023ad
Linux Linux f50fff73d620cd6e8f48bc58d4f1c944615a3fea < 7237c26431cc78e5ec3259f4350f3dd58f6a4319
Linux Linux f50fff73d620cd6e8f48bc58d4f1c944615a3fea < 2ed9a89192e3192e5fea7ff6475c8722513f325e
Linux Linux f50fff73d620cd6e8f48bc58d4f1c944615a3fea < 7ed5cf8e6d9bfb6a78d0471317edff14f0f2b4dd
Linux Linux 6.0
linux linux_kernel 6.0 – 6.1.39

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

0.16%
Raw Score 0.001600
Percentile 5.2%
Date 2026-11-14

EPSS Trend

2026-11-14
0.00160
2026-11-13
0.00160
2026-11-12
0.00160
2026-11-10
0.00160
2026-11-09
0.00160
2026-11-08
0.00160
2026-11-07
0.00160
2026-11-06
0.00160
2026-11-05
0.00160

Intelligence Sources

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