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CVE-2023-53115

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-53115 addresses a memory leak vulnerability in the Linux kernel's mpi3mr SCSI driver, specifically during IOC reinitialization. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.5) allows a local attacker with low privileges to cause a denial of service (system crash) due to excessive memory consumption. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.17, < 6.1.21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.2, < 6.2.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
7.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0017 is in the 38th 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

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

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel-rt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2023-53115Low

kernel: scsi: mpi3mr: Fix memory leaks in mpi3mr_init_ioc()

May 2, 2025

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/5aab9342f12f980b64617a034d121efbbf09100a
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/7277b4eec2f25a0653646ba95b1f25fa16be1d6c
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/c798304470cab88723d895726d17fcb96472e0e9
Patch