CVE-2023-5184 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Two potential signed to unsigned conversion errors and buffer overflow vulnerabilities at the following locations in the Zephyr IPM drivers.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00338.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Zephyrproject	Zephyr

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-57521	Two potential signed to unsigned conversion errors and buffer overflow vulnerabilities at the following locations in the Zephyr IPM drivers.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/175657/Zephyr-RTOS-3.x.0-Buffer-Overflows.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Nov/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/07/1
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/security/advisories/GHSA-8x3p-q3r5-xh9g

History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00225}`	epss `{'score': 0.00295}`

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:30:00 +0000

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Description	Two potential signed to unsigned conversion errors and buffer overflow vulnerabilities at the following locations in the Zephyr IPM drivers.	Two potential signed to unsigned conversion errors and buffer overflow vulnerabilities at the following locations in the Zephyr IPM drivers.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: zephyr

Published: 2023-09-27T17:26:51.660Z

Updated: 2025-06-18T14:08:20.654Z

Reserved: 2023-09-25T19:53:12.084Z

Link: CVE-2023-5184

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:52:08.249Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-27T18:15:11.997

Modified: 2025-02-13T18:15:55.643

Link: CVE-2023-5184

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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