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CVE-2023-53256: firmware: arm_ffa: Fix FFA device names for logical partitions

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)

  • 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: 0.14% (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 19b8766459c41c6f318f8a548cc1c66dffd18363, 93d0cbe88118fcef234d3ebcbdadcb9ebe9d34f1, c2f65991097a62efbdb2bed3c06fc86b08c9593b.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 19b8766459c41c6f318f8a548cc1c66dffd18363, 93d0cbe88118fcef234d3ebcbdadcb9ebe9d34f1, c2f65991097a62efbdb2bed3c06fc86b08c9593b 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

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: arm_ffa: Fix FFA device names for logical partitions Each physical partition can provide multiple services each with UUID. Each such service can be presented as logical partition with a unique combination of VM ID and UUID. The number of distinct UUID in a system will be less than or equal to the number of logical partitions. However, currently it fails to register more than one logical partition or service within a physical partition as the device name contains only VM ID while both VM ID and UUID are maintained in the partition information. The kernel complains with the below message: | sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/arm-ffa-8001' | CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc7 #8 | Hardware name: FVP Base RevC (DT) | Call trace: | dump_backtrace+0xf8/0x118 | show_stack+0x18/0x24 | dump_stack_lvl+0x50/0x68 | dump_stack+0x18/0x24 | sysfs_create_dir_ns+0xe0/0x13c | kobject_add_internal+0x220/0x3d4 | kobject_add+0x94/0x100 | device_add+0x144/0x5d8 | device_register+0x20/0x30 | ffa_device_register+0x88/0xd8 | ffa_setup_partitions+0x108/0x1b8 | ffa_init+0x2ec/0x3a4 | do_one_initcall+0xcc/0x240 | do_initcall_level+0x8c/0xac | do_initcalls+0x54/0x94 | do_basic_setup+0x1c/0x28 | kernel_init_freeable+0x100/0x16c | kernel_init+0x20/0x1a0 | ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 | kobject_add_internal failed for arm-ffa-8001 with -EEXIST, don't try to | register things with the same name in the same directory. | arm_ffa arm-ffa: unable to register device arm-ffa-8001 err=-17 | ARM FF-A: ffa_setup_partitions: failed to register partition ID 0x8001 By virtue of being random enough to avoid collisions when generated in a distributed system, there is no way to compress UUID keys to the number of bits required to identify each. We can eliminate '-' in the name but it is not worth eliminating 4 bytes and add unnecessary logic for doing that. Also v1.0 doesn't provide the UUID of the partitions which makes it hard to use the same for the device name. So to keep it simple, let us alloc an ID using ida_alloc() and append the same to "arm-ffa" to make up a unique device name. Also stash the id value in ffa_dev to help freeing the ID later when the device is destroyed.

MediumCVSS 5.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Sep 15, 2025
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.1% · 4th percentile
CWE
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Action score

22

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
22 / 40 · 5.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.1%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

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Affected versions

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  • linux linux kernel5.14 and later · before 5.15.114
  • linux linux kernel5.16 and later · before 6.1.31
  • linux linux kernel6.2 and later · before 6.3.5
  • linux linux kernel6.4

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

    • 5.14affected
    • e781858488b918e30a6ff28e9eab6058b787e3b3 and later · before c2f65991097a62efbdb2bed3c06fc86b08c9593baffected · git
    • e781858488b918e30a6ff28e9eab6058b787e3b3 and later · before dfc5aaa57f52a5800c339369d235fa30fb734febaffected · git
    • e781858488b918e30a6ff28e9eab6058b787e3b3 and later · before 93d0cbe88118fcef234d3ebcbdadcb9ebe9d34f1affected · git
    • e781858488b918e30a6ff28e9eab6058b787e3b3 and later · before 19b8766459c41c6f318f8a548cc1c66dffd18363affected · git
    • before 5.14not affected · semver
    • 5.15.114 and later · up to and including 5.15.*not affected · semver
    • 6.1.31 and later · up to and including 6.1.*not affected · semver
    • 6.3.5 and later · up to and including 6.3.*not affected · semver
    • 6.4 and laternot affected · original_commit_for_fix

Package-level exposure

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

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:12linuxbefore 6.1.37-16.1.37-1
Debian:13linuxbefore 6.3.7-16.3.7-1

Same product

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Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2023-53254Sep 15, 2025 · cacheinfo: Fix shared_cpu_map to handle shared caches at different levels
    28Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2023-53255Sep 15, 2025 · firmware: stratix10-svc: Fix a potential resource leak in svc_create_memory_pool()
    22Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2023-53257Sep 15, 2025 · wifi: mac80211: check S1G action frame size
    31Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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Product / packageFixed versionSource
Linux Linux19b8766459c41c6f318f8a548cc1c66dffd18363Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux93d0cbe88118fcef234d3ebcbdadcb9ebe9d34f1Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linuxc2f65991097a62efbdb2bed3c06fc86b08c9593bVendor (CNA)
Linux Linuxdfc5aaa57f52a5800c339369d235fa30fb734febVendor (CNA)
debian:linux6.1.37-1 · Debian:12Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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EPSS, last 120 days

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Credits

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

Weakness class (CWE)

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CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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