CVE-2023-53861 | ext4: correct grp validation in ext4_mb_good_group

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: correct grp validation in ext4_mb_good_group Group corruption check will access memory of grp and will trigger kernel crash if grp is NULL. So do NULL check before corruption check.

Published: 2025-12-09 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2023-53861 is rated Low Risk (5.8/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.02%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-53861

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 2025-12-09 0.02%

Full EPSS history (1 record total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2023-53861

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2023-53861

OS Trackers for CVE-2023-53861

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2023-53861 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-2023-53861
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53861
suse medium CVE-2023-53861 severity moderate: SUSE including 369 source package names (2.1.3-6.115:kernel-default-base-6.4.0-39.1.21.16, 2.1.3-7.146:kernel-rt-6.4.0-40.1, …), 828 product×package rows across 161 product lines (Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container, Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/kvm-os-container, … (161 product lines)): Fixed 385, Known Affected 231, Known Not Affected 212. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53861/
ubuntu medium CVE-2023-53861 medium priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1405 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1010, ignored 172, released 115, not-affected 107, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-53861

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2023-53861

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References for CVE-2023-53861

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