In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: intel-ish-hid: Fix kernel panic during warm reset During warm reset device->fw_client is set to NULL. If a bus driver is registered after this NULL setting and before new firmware clients are enumerated by ISHTP, kernel panic will result in the function ishtp_cl_bus_match(). This is because of reference to device->fw_client->props.protocol_name. ISH firmware after getting successfully loaded, sends a warm reset notification to remove all clients from the bus and sets device->fw_client to NULL. Until kernel v5.15, all enabled ISHTP kernel module drivers were loaded right after any of the first ISHTP device was registered, regardless of whether it was a matched or an unmatched device. This resulted in all drivers getting registered much before the warm reset notification from ISH. Starting kernel v5.16, this issue got exposed after the change was introduced to load only bus drivers for the respective matching devices. In this scenario, cros_ec_ishtp device and cros_ec_ishtp driver are registered after the warm reset device fw_client NULL setting. cros_ec_ishtp driver_register() triggers the callback to ishtp_cl_bus_match() to match ISHTP driver to the device and causes kernel panic in guid_equal() when dereferencing fw_client NULL pointer to get protocol_name.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2023-53392 is rated Low Risk (29.3/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.02%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.
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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 | 2025-09-19 | — | 0.02% | — |
Full EPSS history (1 record total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
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| 7.1 | 3.1 | HIGH |
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1.8 | 5.2 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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unimportant | CVE-2023-53392 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-53392 |
redhat
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medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53392 |
suse
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medium | CVE-2023-53392 severity moderate: SUSE including 75 source package names (bpftool-4.18.0-553.el8_10, bpftool-7.2.0-362.8.1.el9_3, …), 325 product×package rows across 56 product lines (SLES-LTSS-TERADATA 15 SP2, SUSE Liberty Linux 8, … (56 product lines)): Known Not Affected 276, Fixed 49. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53392/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2023-53392 medium priority: Ubuntu including 150 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1350 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 969, ignored 159, not-affected 139, released 83. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-53392 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 5.16.1, < 6.1.25 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 6.2, < 6.2.12 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.16 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16:-:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.16 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.16 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.16 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.16 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.16 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.16 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16:rc8:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.3 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.3 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.3 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.3 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.3 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.3 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:* |