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CVE-2023-43788

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-43788 is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the libXpm library, affecting various Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions. A local attacker can exploit this flaw within the XpmCreateXpmImageFromBuffer() function to read sensitive memory contents. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), it requires local access and low attack complexity, leading to a high impact on confidentiality. Currently, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.5.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:libxpm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
37CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
38CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
39CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:39:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
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
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 85th 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

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 libXpm 3.5.17-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 3.5.17-1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: libXpm-0:3.5.12-11.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: motif-0:2.3.4-20.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: libXpm-0:3.5.13-10.el9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: motif-0:2.3.4-28.el9
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

microsoft2023-Oct/CVE-2023-43788Moderate

Libxpm: out of bounds read in xpmcreatexpmimagefrombuffer()

Oct 10, 2023
redhatCVE-2023-43788Moderate

libXpm: out of bounds read in XpmCreateXpmImageFromBuffer()

Oct 4, 2023

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00005.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/63IBRFLQVZSMOAZBZOBKFWJP26ILRAGQ
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/I3KFUQT42R7TB4D7RISNSBQFJGLTQGUL
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/TFAJTBNO3PAIA6EGZR4PN62H6RLKNDTE
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/V6FARGWN7VWXXWPXYNEEDJLRR3EWFZ3T
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZECBCLDYUGLDSVV75ECPIBW7JXOB3747
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:2146
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:2217
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:2974
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:3022
access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2023-43788
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory