CVE-2023-38470

FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-38470 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Avahi, specifically within the avahi_escape_label() function, and impacts various Avahi and Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions. This local vulnerability, with low attack complexity, could lead to a denial of service (availability impact) if exploited. There is currently no public exploit code available, nor is it known to be actively exploited, with minimal community discussion and media coverage observed.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		< 0.9CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:avahi:avahi::::::::
		8.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:::::::*
		9.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:::::::*
		All Versions ImpactedCPE match	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.2MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

2.5

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.32%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

24.3%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 15,940 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (16)

denopatch availablevia llm_extracted

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keraspatch availablevia llm_extracted

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