CVE-2023-26917

HIGHNVD 7.57.5—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2023-04-11. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
Elevated
7.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.9%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: Elevated riskExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

libyang from v2.0.164 to v2.1.30 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the function lysp_stmt_validate_value at lys_parse_mem.c.

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
7.5HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
65
EG Risk 65/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity75% × 45%
Exploitation40% × 40%
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.9%
EPSS %ILE
58th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

April 11, 2023

Last Modified

February 11, 2025

References (2)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-26917(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulibyang2t64 (2.1.30-2.1ubuntu0.1) @ noble2026-05-25ubuntu

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
libyang1.0.225-1.1 ... 6.1.4-1 (29 versions)——
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
libyang22.1.148-0.1, 2.1.148-0.2, 2.1.30-2, 2.1.30-2.1, 2.1.30-2.1~exp1——
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
libyang—3.4.2+dfsg-2—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
libyang—3.4.2+dfsg-2—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(1)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 7× in last 7d / 23× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2023-26917?
CVE-2023-26917 is a high vulnerability published on April 11, 2023. libyang from v2.0.164 to v2.1.30 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the function lyspstmtvalidatevalue at lysparse_mem.c.
When was CVE-2023-26917 disclosed?
CVE-2023-26917 was first published on April 11, 2023, with the most recent update on February 11, 2025. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2023-26917 actively exploited?
CVE-2023-26917 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (58th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-26917?
CVE-2023-26917 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2023-26917?
A fix for CVE-2023-26917 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2023-26917 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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