CVE-2023-39902 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the U-Boot Secondary Program Loader (SPL) before version 2023.07 on specific NXP i.MX 8M family processors. An attacker can exploit this by crafting a Flattened Image Tree (FIT) structure to overwrite SPL memory, enabling unauthenticated software execution. With a CVSS score of 7.8, this local attack requires low privileges and has high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2023.07CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:nxp:uboot_secondary_program_loader:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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