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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.5

CVE-2023-53156 json

transpose: Buffer overflow due to integer overflow

published 2023-12-18 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-5gmm-6m36-r7jh , RUSTSEC-2023-0080 , EUVD-2023-59767

cvss
4.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 28%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The transpose crate before 0.2.3 for Rust allows an integer overflow via input_width and input_height arguments.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io transpose 0.2.3
  • ejmahler transpose 0.2.3
  • rust-transpose Debian 14 0.2.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53156

  • framework-inputmodule-control openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.2.0-3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15433-1

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-2023-53156 updated cvss 4.5

transpose: Integer Overflow in transpose crate Causes Out-of-Bounds Write

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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
15 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 28% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 4.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io transpose
>=0.1.0, <0.2.3
>=0.0.0-0, <0.2.3
0.2.3

Affected products

  • ejmahler transpose

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

References

Sources

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