Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2023-32181

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-32181 is a Classic Buffer Overflow vulnerability affecting openSUSE libeconf versions prior to 0.5.2, allowing for a Denial of Service (DoS) through specially crafted configuration files. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), this vulnerability can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction but without impacting confidentiality or integrity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:libeconf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.3LOW

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
43.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0057 is in the 46th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 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 Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2023-32181Moderate

libeconf: stack-based buffer overflow in econf_writeFile() in lib/libeconf.c

Mar 16, 2023

References

github.com / openSUSE/libeconf/issues/178
https / /bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi
Broken LinkIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
https / /github.com/openSUSE/libeconf/issues/178
Broken LinkIssue TrackingVendor Advisory