CVE-2023-5088

HIGHNVD 7.06.4▼
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 6.4 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2023-11-03. NVD baseline CVSS 6.4; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
7.0
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 0%CVSS: 7.0Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

A bug in QEMU could cause a guest I/O operation otherwise addressed to an arbitrary disk offset to be targeted to offset 0 instead (potentially overwriting the VM's boot code). This could be used, for example, by L2 guests with a virtual disk (vdiskL2) stored on a virtual disk of an L1 (vdiskL1) hypervisor to read and/or write data to LBA 0 of vdiskL1, potentially gaining control of L1 at its next reboot.

CVSS v3
7.0
EG Score
6.4(medium)
EPSS
13.9%
KEV
Not listed

Published

November 3, 2023

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

References (13)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-5088(2)

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

Patch Availability(3)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntuqemu-utils (1:7.2+dfsg-5ubuntu2.4) @ lunar2026-05-24ubuntu
redhatvirt:rhel-8100020240314161907.e155f54d2024-05-22redhat
redhatqemu-kvm-17:8.2.0-11.el9_42024-04-30redhat

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.

Weakness Classification(2)

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

Additional Vendor Advisories

(2)

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 10× in last 7d / 42× 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.

  1. 2026-07-11 08:26 UTCEPSS rescore
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  23. 2026-06-24 06:28 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 7 · severity → HIGH
  24. 2026-06-23 21:31 UTCEPSS rescore
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  50. 2026-05-24 14:30 UTCEG score recompute
  51. 2026-05-24 14:30 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-05-24 14:30 UTCGHSA enrichment

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2023-5088?
CVE-2023-5088 is a high vulnerability published on November 3, 2023. A bug in QEMU could cause a guest I/O operation otherwise addressed to an arbitrary disk offset to be targeted to offset 0 instead (potentially overwriting the VM's boot code). This could be used, for example, by L2 guests with a virtual disk (vdiskL2) stored on a virtual disk of an L1 (vdiskL1)…
When was CVE-2023-5088 disclosed?
CVE-2023-5088 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on November 3, 2023, with the most recent update on June 17, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2023-5088 actively exploited?
CVE-2023-5088 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 13.9% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-5088?
CVE-2023-5088 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.0 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 6.4.
How do I remediate CVE-2023-5088?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2023-5088, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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