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CVE-2023-4016

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-4016 is a low-severity vulnerability affecting specific versions of fedoraproject and procps, allowing an authenticated user to write large amounts of unfiltered data into the process heap when running the "ps" utility. With a CVSS score of 3.3, its impact is limited to availability (A:L) and requires local access (AV:L, PR:L). There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current threat level.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.3.0, <= 4.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:procps_project:procps:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
38CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

2.5LOW

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
1.0
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.24%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
15.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0024 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 1,509 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 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: procps-ng-0:3.3.15-14.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: procps-ng-0:3.3.17-13.el9
View patch
fedoraworkaround availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2023-4016Low

procps: ps buffer overflow

Aug 2, 2023

References

gitlab.com / procps-ng/procps
Product
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/SUETRRT24OFGPYK6ACPM5VUGHNKH5CQ5
MitigationThird Party Advisory