CVE-2023-45931

Exp

Mesa 23.0.4 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference in check_xshm() for the has_error state. NOTE: this is disputed because there is no scenario in which the vulnerability was demonstrated.

Published: 2024-03-27 Last update: 2025-11-04 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2023-45931 is rated High Exploit Risk (60.2/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.21%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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-2023-45931

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

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-45931

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 2026-04-18 0.28% 0.21% -0.07%
2 2026-04-15 0.18% 0.28% +0.09%
3 2025-11-21 — 0.18% —

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2023-45931

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
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.
 3.9 3.6 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2023-45931

OS Trackers for CVE-2023-45931

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2023-45931 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (mesa), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-45931
suse medium CVE-2023-45931 severity moderate: SUSE including 37 source package names (Mesa, Mesa-32bit, …), 736 product×package rows across 55 product lines (SLES-LTSS-TERADATA 15 SP2, SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1, … (55 product lines)): Known Not Affected 736. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-45931/
ubuntu negligible CVE-2023-45931 negligible priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (mesa), 9 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, mantic, noble, oracular, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 7, ignored 1, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-45931

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2023-45931

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mesa3d mesa 23.0.4 cpe:2.3:a:mesa3d:mesa:23.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2023-45931

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