CVE-2023-4272

Mali GPU Kernel Driver exposes sensitive data from freed memory

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 5.5
EPSS: EPSS 0.34 % · percentile 27 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-11-07
Updated: 2024-09-04
Assigner: Arm
NVD status: Modified

Description

A local non-privileged user can make GPU processing operations that expose sensitive data from previously freed memory.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2023-54143
GCVE · GCVE-0-2023-4272

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2023-AVI-0995 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Google Android · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:arm:bifrost_gpu_kernel_driver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ r0p0 ≤ r41p0
cpe:2.3:a:arm:mali_gpu_kernel_driver:r41p0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:arm:midgard_gpu_kernel_driver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ r8p0 ≤ r32p0
cpe:2.3:a:arm:valhall_gpu_kernel_driver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ r19p0 ≤ r41p0

Affected products

Product	Versions
Arm Ltd · Midgard GPU Kernel Driver	affected r8p0 ≤ r32p0
Arm Ltd · Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver	affected r0p0 < r42p0
Arm Ltd · Valhall GPU Kernel Driver	affected r19p0 < r42p0
Arm Ltd · Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver	affected r41p0 < r42p0

References

https://developer.arm.com/Arm%20Security%20Center/Mali%20GPU%20Driver%20Vulnerabilities

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD