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CVE-2023-26590

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-26590 is a floating point exception vulnerability in the sox audio processing tool, specifically within the lsx_aiffstartwrite function, affecting fedoraproject, redhat, and sound_exchange_project. This flaw has a CVSS score of 5.5 (MEDIUM) and can lead to a denial of service, requiring local access and low privileges to exploit. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
14.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sound_exchange_project:sound_exchange:14.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fedoraproject:extra_packages_for_enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
38CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.2MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.5
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
11.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0021 is in the 51st percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI)Fixed in: sox

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2023-26590

sox: floating point exception in src/aiff.c

May 5, 2023

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2023-26590
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory