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CVE-2023-4211

59
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-4211 is a use-after-free vulnerability affecting Arm's 5th Gen, Bifrost, Midgard, and Valhall GPU kernel drivers. A local non-privileged user can exploit this flaw to gain unauthorized access to previously freed memory, potentially leading to information disclosure. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access, but can result in high confidentiality impact. The FAUCET Risk Score of 98/100 indicates significant risk. This CVE is actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its presence in the KEV catalog. Despite active exploitation and high community discussion, no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is currently available.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= r41p0, < r43p0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:arm:5th_gen_gpu_architecture_kernel_driver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= r0p0, < r43p0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:arm:bifrost_gpu_kernel_driver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= r12p0, <= r32p0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:arm:midgard_gpu_kernel_driver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= r19p0, < r43p0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:arm:valhall_gpu_kernel_driver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Oct 3, 2023
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0136 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2023-4211Important

kernel: Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver Use-After-Free Vulnerability

Aug 15, 2023

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
developer.arm.com / Arm%20Security%20Center/Mali%20GPU%20Driver%20Vulnerabilities
Vendor Advisory