In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Release folio lock on fscache read hit. Under the current code, when cifs_readpage_worker is called, the call contract is that the callee should unlock the page. This is documented in the read_folio section of Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst as: > The filesystem should unlock the folio once the read has completed, > whether it was successful or not. Without this change, when fscache is in use and cache hit occurs during a read, the page lock is leaked, producing the following stack on subsequent reads (via mmap) to the page: $ cat /proc/3890/task/12864/stack [<0>] folio_wait_bit_common+0x124/0x350 [<0>] filemap_read_folio+0xad/0xf0 [<0>] filemap_fault+0x8b1/0xab0 [<0>] __do_fault+0x39/0x150 [<0>] do_fault+0x25c/0x3e0 [<0>] __handle_mm_fault+0x6ca/0xc70 [<0>] handle_mm_fault+0xe9/0x350 [<0>] do_user_addr_fault+0x225/0x6c0 [<0>] exc_page_fault+0x84/0x1b0 [<0>] asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30 This requires a reboot to resolve; it is a deadlock. Note however that the call to cifs_readpage_from_fscache does mark the page clean, but does not free the folio lock. This happens in __cifs_readpage_from_fscache on success. Releasing the lock at that point however is not appropriate as cifs_readahead also calls cifs_readpage_from_fscache and *does* unconditionally release the lock after its return. This change therefore effectively makes cifs_readpage_worker work like cifs_readahead.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2023-53593 is rated Low Risk (23.9/100): CVSS Medium 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) |
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| 1 | 2025-10-05 | — | 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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| 5.5 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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1.8 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2023-53593 not yet assigned 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-2023-53593 |
redhat
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low | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53593 |
suse
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medium | CVE-2023-53593 severity moderate: SUSE including 417 source package names (2.1.3-6.88:kernel-default-base-6.4.0-36.1.21.13, 2.1.3-7.105:kernel-rt-6.4.0-38.1, …), 862 product×package rows across 183 product lines (Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container, Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/kvm-os-container, … (183 product lines)): Fixed 519, Known Affected 231, Known Not Affected 112. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53593/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2023-53593 medium priority: Ubuntu including 158 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1414 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1017, ignored 162, released 138, not-affected 76, needed 20, needs-triage 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-53593 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 5.17.1, < 6.1.47 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 6.2, < 6.4.12 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.17 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.17:-:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.17 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.17:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.17 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.17:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.17 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.17:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.17 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.17:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.17 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.17:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.17 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.17:rc8:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.5 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.5:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.5 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.5:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.5 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.5:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.5 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.5:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.5 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.5:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.5 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.5:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:* |