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CVE-2023-52769: wifi: ath12k: fix htt mlo-offset event locking

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 31/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.33% (FIRST EPSS).
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: Linux Linux 6afc57ea315e0f660b1f870a681737bb7b71faef, afd3425bd69610f318403084fe491e24a1357fb9, d908ca431e20b0e4bfc5d911d1744910ed779bdb.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 6afc57ea315e0f660b1f870a681737bb7b71faef, afd3425bd69610f318403084fe491e24a1357fb9, d908ca431e20b0e4bfc5d911d1744910ed779bdb or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath12k: fix htt mlo-offset event locking The ath12k active pdevs are protected by RCU but the htt mlo-offset event handling code calling ath12k_mac_get_ar_by_pdev_id() was not marked as a read-side critical section. Mark the code in question as an RCU read-side critical section to avoid any potential use-after-free issues. Compile tested only.

HighCVSS 7.8 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Memory safety

BDU:2024-04578

Published: May 21, 2024
Updated: Aug 5, 2026
EPSS: 0.3% · 27th percentile
CWE: CWE-416

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 31 / 40 · 7.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 7.8
CNA · Linux: 8.8; 1.0 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
linux	linux kernel	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

linux linux kernel6.3 and later · before 6.5.13
linux linux kernel6.6 and later · before 6.6.3

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Linux). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Linux Linux
- 6.3affected
- d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 and later · before d908ca431e20b0e4bfc5d911d1744910ed779bdbaffected · git
- d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 and later · before afd3425bd69610f318403084fe491e24a1357fb9affected · git
- d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 and later · before 6afc57ea315e0f660b1f870a681737bb7b71faefaffected · git
- before 6.3not affected · semver
- 6.5.13 and later · up to and including 6.5.*not affected · semver
- 6.6.3 and later · up to and including 6.6.*not affected · semver
- 6.7 and laternot affected · original_commit_for_fix

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected range	Fix
Debian:13	linux	before 6.6.8-1	6.6.8-1

Same product

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Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2023-52767May 21, 2024 · tls: fix NULL deref on tls_sw_splice_eof() with empty record
22Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2023-52768May 21, 2024 · wifi: wilc1000: use vmm_table as array in wilc struct
31Monitor
Later →CVE-2023-52772May 21, 2024 · af_unix: fix use-after-free in unix_stream_read_actor()
31Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Linux Linux	6afc57ea315e0f660b1f870a681737bb7b71faef	Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux	afd3425bd69610f318403084fe491e24a1357fb9	Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux	d908ca431e20b0e4bfc5d911d1744910ed779bdb	Vendor (CNA)
debian:linux	6.6.8-1 · Debian:13	Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-416 · Use After Free

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Root cause

After a memory region is freed, another reference pointing to it is still used. By then, the same region may have been allocated for different data.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-416 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1free(dev->buf);
2/* ... another thread is still running ... */
3process(dev->buf);

Fixed

1lock(&dev->lock);
2free(dev->buf);
3dev->buf = NULL;
4unlock(&dev->lock);

Attack context

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MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.

Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC

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References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/6afc57ea315e0f660b1f870a681737bb7b71faef

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