CVE-2023-54305 | ext4: refuse to create ea block when umounted

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: refuse to create ea block when umounted The ea block expansion need to access s_root while it is already set as NULL when umount is triggered. Refuse this request to avoid panic.

Published: 2025-12-30 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2023-54305 is rated Low Risk (7.6/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.18%). 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-2023-54305

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 2026-06-15 0.02% 0.18% +0.15%
2 2025-12-31 0.02%

Full EPSS history (2 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2023-54305

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2023-54305

OS Trackers for CVE-2023-54305

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2023-54305 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-2023-54305
redhat low https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-54305
suse medium https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-54305/
ubuntu medium CVE-2023-54305 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 177, released 130, not-affected 67, needed 20, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-54305

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2023-54305

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2023-54305

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