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Fencer Vulns
low 2.9

CVE-2023-53161 json

buffered-reader vulnerable to out-of-bounds array access leading to panic

published 2023-05-16 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-29mf-62xx-28jq , RUSTSEC-2023-0039 , EUVD-2023-59772

cvss
2.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The buffered-reader crate before 1.1.5 for Rust allows out-of-bounds array access and a panic.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io buffered-reader 1.0.2, 1.1.5, 1.2.0
  • sequoia-pgp buffered-reader 1.0.2, 1.1.5
  • rust-buffered-reader Debian 14, Debian 13 1.2.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53161

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-2023-53161 updated cvss 3.3

buffered-reader: Buffered-Reader Out-of-Bounds Access Vulnerability

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rpm-sequoia, rust-rpm-sequoia, trustee-guest-components Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 rust-sequoia-sq, rust-rpm-sequoia, rust-sequoia-sqv, trustee-guest-components Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 kata-containers Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer rhtpa/rhtpa-trustification-service-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

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

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 2.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
GitHub 3.1 2.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io buffered-reader
<1.0.2
>=1.1.0, <1.1.5
>=0.0.0-0, <1.0.2
>=1.2.0, <1.2.0
1.0.2
1.1.5
1.2.0

Affected products

  • sequoia-pgp buffered-reader

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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