A flaw was found in the exFAT driver of the Linux kernel. The vulnerability exists in the implementation of the file name reconstruction function, which is responsible for reading file name entries from a directory index and merging file name parts belonging to one file into a single long file name. Since the file name characters are copied into a stack variable, a local privileged attacker could use this flaw to overflow the kernel stack.
CVE-2023-4273
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
This medium-severity CVE scores 6.7 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.6% (50th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory CVSS 6.0 is lower than this score; a lower GitHub score revises it only when its advisory is newer than the CVE record's last change, and this advisory (published 2023-08-09) is not newer than that change (2026-10-14), so it does not.
- CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 6.7
- EG Score
- 6.7MEDIUMmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 46EG Risk 46/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity67% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 6.7 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation40% × 40%EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.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
- 0.6%
- EPSS %ILE
- 50th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (6.7): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 6.7 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 6.7 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
- EG Likelihood
- 0.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS. FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
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 no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
August 9, 2023
Last Modified
October 14, 2026
Advisory Details (10)
Auto-updated Oct 14, 2026[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: kernel-6.4.10-200.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3TYLSJ2SAI7RF56ZLQ5CQWCJLVJSD73Q/[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: kernel-6.4.10-100.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/344H6HO6SSC4KT7PDFXSDIXKMKHISSGF/[SECURITY] [DLA 3623-1] linux-5.10 security update
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00027.htmlCVE-2023-4273: a vulnerability in the Linux exFAT driver – My DFIR Blog
https://dfir.ru/2023/08/23/cve-2023-4273-a-vulnerability-in-the-linux-exfat-driver/2221609 – (CVE-2023-4273) CVE-2023-4273 kernel: exFAT: stack overflow in exfat_get_uniname_from_ext_entry
Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2221609CVE-2023-4273 - Red Hat Customer Portal
Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 and 8 are not affected by this flaw as they did not include exFAT filesystem support (introduced
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4273Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6583Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-4273(3)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2023:6583Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- CVE-2023-4273Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)
CVE-2023-4273
- GHSA-wm25-c777-f2h3GitHub Security AdvisoriesMedium
A flaw was found in the exFAT driver of the Linux kernel. The vulnerability exists in the...
Patch Availability(10)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | linux-tools-intel-iotg (5.15.0.1043.43) @ jammy | 2026-10-14 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-virtual-hwe-20.04-edge (5.15.0.86.96~20.04.44) @ focal | 2026-10-14 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-tools-raspi-nolpae (5.15.0.1040.38) @ jammy | 2026-10-14 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-tools-intel-iotg-edge (5.15.0.1043.49~20.04.33) @ focal | 2026-10-14 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-tools-nvidia-hwe-22.04-edge (6.2.0.1011.13) @ jammy | 2026-10-14 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-tools-oem-22.04c (6.1.0.1021.21) @ jammy | 2026-10-14 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-virtual-hwe-20.04-edge (5.15.0.86.83) @ jammy | 2026-10-14 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-tools-oem-22.04b (6.0.0.1021.21) @ jammy | 2026-10-14 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-virtual-hwe-22.04-edge (6.2.0.34.34) @ lunar | 2026-10-14 | ubuntu |
| redhat | kernel-0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 | 2023-11-07 | redhat |
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
(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:10(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux-5.10 | 5.10.136-1~deb10u1 ... 5.10.179-5~deb10u1 (10 versions) |
| — |
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | 5.10.103-1 ... 5.10.92-2 (33 versions) |
| — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | 6.1.27-1 ... 6.1.38-4~bpo11+1 (8 versions) |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | — |
| — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | — |
| — |
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(9)
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.
- UbuntuUSN-6343-1MEDIUM
Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6385-1MEDIUM
Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6412-1MEDIUM
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6416-1MEDIUM
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6416-2MEDIUM
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6416-3MEDIUM
Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6445-1MEDIUM
Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6445-2MEDIUM
Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6466-1MEDIUM
Linux kernel (NVIDIA) vulnerabilities
Data Freshness Timeline
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Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. 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. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 93 of 214 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 7 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 121 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-10-23 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 50th percentile
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- 2026-10-14 22:32 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-14 22:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wm25-c777-f2h3 · GitHub CVSS 6.0
- 2026-10-14 21:57 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-14 21:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wm25-c777-f2h3 · GitHub CVSS 6.0
- 2026-10-14 21:35 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-14 21:35 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-14 21:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wm25-c777-f2h3 · GitHub CVSS 6.0
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