High severity · published Feb 15, 2024
CVE-2023-51787
An issue was discovered in Wind River VxWorks 7 22.09 and 23.03
7.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in Wind River VxWorks 7 22.09 and 23.03. If a VxWorks task or POSIX thread that uses OpenSSL exits, limited per-task memory is not freed, resulting in a memory leak.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 42% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
VX
Vxworks · Windriver
7; 7 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-51787
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-51787
Vendor Advisory
https://support2.windriver.com/index.php?page=cve&on=view&id=CVE-2023-51787
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