VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2023-43785
A vulnerability was found in libX11 due to a boundary condition within the _XkbReadKeySyms() function.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 0.67%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.67%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A vulnerability was found in libX11 due to a boundary condition within the _XkbReadKeySyms() function. This flaw allows a local user to trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read the contents of memory on the system.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.67% probability · 52th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-787, CWE-125
- Affected
- x.org/libx11 · redhat/enterprise linux · fedoraproject/fedora
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 0.7% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2145
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2973
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-43785Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242252Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2145
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2973
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-43785Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242252Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00004.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231103-0006/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.