Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2023-46753 json

An issue was discovered in FRRouting FRR through 9.0.1.

published 2023-10-26 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-50920

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 61%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in FRRouting FRR through 9.0.1. A crash can occur for a crafted BGP UPDATE message without mandatory attributes, e.g., one with only an unknown transit attribute.

Patch / fix

  • frr Debian 14, Debian 13 9.1-0.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-46753

  • frr Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 8.1-1ubuntu1.7
  • quagga Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 1.2.4-4ubuntu0.4
  • frr Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 7.2.1-1ubuntu0.2+esm2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2023-46753

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • frr RHEL 8 7.5.1-22.el8
  • frr-selinux RHEL 8 7.5.1-22.el8
  • frr RHEL 9 8.5.3-4.el9
  • frr-selinux RHEL 9 8.5.3-4.el9

red hat advisories RHSA-2024:2981RHSA-2024:2156

  • frr SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP6, SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.6 +1 more 8.5.6-150500.4.30.1
  • frr SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 7.4-150300.4.20.1
  • frr SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 8.4-150500.4.11.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:4090-1SUSE-SU-2023:4483-1SUSE-SU-2023:4473-1

  • frr openSUSE Tumbleweed 8.4-7.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13387-1

  • frr AlmaLinux 8 7.5.1-22.el8
  • frr-selinux AlmaLinux 8 7.5.1-22.el8
  • frr AlmaLinux 9 8.5.3-4.el9
  • frr-selinux AlmaLinux 9 8.5.3-4.el9

almalinux advisories ALSA-2024:2981ALSA-2024:2156

  • frr Rocky Linux 8 7.5.1-22.el8

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2024:2981

  • frr CBL-Mariner 2.0 8.5.3-3
  • frr Azure Linux 3.0 9.1-2

azure linux advisories AZL-31728AZL-34689

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-46753 updated cvss 5.9

frr: crafted BGP UPDATE message leading to a crash

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) frr 7.5.1-22.el8, frr-selinux 7.5.1-22.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:2981
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) frr 8.5.3-4.el9, frr-selinux 8.5.3-4.el9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:2156

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.94% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 61% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.