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CVE-2023-38669

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-38669 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability in the paddle.diagonal function of PaddlePaddle versions prior to 2.5.0, potentially leading to an exploitable condition. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it presents a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its critical severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:paddlepaddle:paddlepaddle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 0, < 2.5.0CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:paddlepaddle:paddlepaddle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.3HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.66%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
47.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0066 is in the 29th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: paddlepaddleFixed in: 2.5.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-8wfh-qxxv-3q8chigh

Use after free in PaddlePaddle

Jul 26, 2023

References

github.com / PaddlePaddle/Paddle/blob/develop/security/advisory/pdsa-2023-001.md
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory