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CVE-2023-32843

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-32843 is a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability affecting MediaTek 5G modems, stemming from improper error handling when processing malformed RRC messages. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the system without requiring user interaction or additional privileges, as reflected by its CVSS score of 7.5. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been confirmed, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, including its association with the "5Ghoul" attacks.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:mediatek:nr15:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:mediatek:nr16:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:mediatek:nr17:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0137 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

corp.mediatek.com / product-security-bulletin/December-2023
Vendor Advisory