🛡️ CVE-2023-32253

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

• Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
• Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
• Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: None.
• Integrity impact: None.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-32253 is classified as CWE-413: Improper Resource Locking. The product does not lock or does not correctly lock a resource when the product must have exclusive access to the resource.

Affected software

CVE-2023-32253 is recorded against 1 package.

• unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 2 August 2025 and last revised on 30 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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bugzilla.redhat.com

Other advisories for this package

unknown has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2022-4995 (9.8 Critical, published 7 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2022-4994 (published 30 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-49900 (9.8 Critical, published 16 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-49899 (9.8 Critical, published 16 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-4990 (published 3 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-4989 (published 3 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-50973 (9.8 Critical, published 2 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-20572 (published 26 Jun 2026)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-413: Improper Resource Locking) in other software:

• CVE-2026-44608 (5.9 Medium, published 20 May 2026)
• CVE-2026-32748 (7.5 High, published 26 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2025-0003 (7.3 High, published 24 Nov 2025)
• CVE-2025-3450 (10.0 Critical, published 7 Oct 2025)
• CVE-2022-49737 (7.7 High, published 16 Mar 2025)
• CVE-2023-33951 (6.7 Medium, published 24 Jul 2023)
• CVE-2023-2430 (5.5 Medium, published 23 Jul 2023)
• CVE-2023-28649 (8.6 High, published 22 May 2023)

CVE-2023-32253 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

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