CVE-2023-37769

Exp

stress-test master commit e4c878 was discovered to contain a FPE vulnerability via the component combine_inner at /pixman-combine-float.c.

Published: 2023-07-17 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2023-37769 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.05%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2023-37769

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-37769

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-04-11 0.03% 0.05% +0.03%
2 2025-11-21 0.21% 0.03% -0.18%
3 2025-11-18 0.21%

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2023-37769

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.5 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
2.8 3.6 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2023-37769

OS Trackers for CVE-2023-37769

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2023-37769 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (pixman), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-37769
suse medium CVE-2023-37769 severity moderate: SUSE including 4 source package names (libpixman-1-0, libpixman-1-0-32bit, libpixman-1-0-devel, pixman), 162 product×package rows across 54 product lines (SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, SUSE Enterprise Storage 7, … (54 product lines)): Will Not Fix 162. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-37769/
ubuntu medium CVE-2023-37769 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (pixman), 13 status rows across 13 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): deferred 7, ignored 5, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-37769

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2023-37769

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
pixman pixman cpe:2.3:a:pixman:pixman:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2023-37769

URL Tags
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pixman/pixman/-/issues/76 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
cvelogic Threat Intelligence