CVE-2023-32831 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Details

CVE-2023-32831
Vulnerability Scoring

5.5
/10
Significant Risk

Security assessments indicate that CVE-2023-32831 presents a notable risk, potentially requiring prompt mitigation.

Attack Complexity Details

  • Attack Complexity: Low
    Exploits can be performed without significant complexity or special conditions.
  • Attack Vector: Local
    Vulnerability requires local system access.
  • Privileges Required: Low
    Some privileges are necessary to exploit the vulnerability.
  • Scope: Unchanged
    Exploit remains within the originally vulnerable component.
  • User Interaction: None
    No user interaction is necessary for exploitation.

CVE-2023-32831 Details

Status: Modified

Last updated: 🕗 21 Nov 2024, 08:04 UTC
Originally published on: 🕒 02 Jan 2024, 03:15 UTC

Time between publication and last update: 324 days

CVSS Release: version 3

CVSS3 Source

nvd@nist.gov

CVSS3 Type

Primary

CVSS3 Vector

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

CVE-2023-32831 Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2023-32831: In wlan driver, there is a possible PIN crack due to use of insufficiently random values. This could lead to local information disclosure with no execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: WCNCR00325055; Issue ID: MSV-868.

Assessing the Risk of CVE-2023-32831

Access Complexity Graph

The exploitability of CVE-2023-32831 depends on two key factors: attack complexity (the level of effort required to execute an exploit) and privileges required (the access level an attacker needs).

Exploitability Analysis for CVE-2023-32831

CVE-2023-32831 presents an accessible attack vector with minimal effort required. Restricting access controls and implementing security updates are critical to reducing exploitation risks.

Understanding AC and PR

A lower complexity and fewer privilege requirements make exploitation easier. Security teams should evaluate these aspects to determine the urgency of mitigation strategies, such as patch management and access control policies.

Attack Complexity (AC) measures the difficulty in executing an exploit. A high AC means that specific conditions must be met, making an attack more challenging, while a low AC means the vulnerability can be exploited with minimal effort.

Privileges Required (PR) determine the level of system access necessary for an attack. Vulnerabilities requiring no privileges are more accessible to attackers, whereas high privilege requirements limit exploitation to authorized users with elevated access.

CVSS Score Breakdown Chart

Above is the CVSS Sub-score Breakdown for CVE-2023-32831, illustrating how Base, Impact, and Exploitability factors combine to form the overall severity rating. A higher sub-score typically indicates a more severe or easier-to-exploit vulnerability.

CIA Impact Analysis

Below is the Impact Analysis for CVE-2023-32831, showing how Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability might be affected if the vulnerability is exploited. Higher values usually signal greater potential damage.

  • Confidentiality: High
    Exploiting CVE-2023-32831 can result in unauthorized access to sensitive data, severely compromising data privacy.
  • Integrity: None
    CVE-2023-32831 poses no threat to data integrity.
  • Availability: None
    CVE-2023-32831 does not impact system availability.

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

The EPSS score estimates the probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the near future.

EPSS Score: 0.042% (probability of exploit)

EPSS Percentile: 5.07% (lower percentile = lower relative risk)
This vulnerability is less risky than approximately 94.93% of others.

CVE-2023-32831 References

External References

CWE Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-330

CAPEC Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification

  • Brute Force CAPEC-112 In this attack, some asset (information, functionality, identity, etc.) is protected by a finite secret value. The attacker attempts to gain access to this asset by using trial-and-error to exhaustively explore all the possible secret values in the hope of finding the secret (or a value that is functionally equivalent) that will unlock the asset.
  • Signature Spoofing by Key Recreation CAPEC-485 An attacker obtains an authoritative or reputable signer's private signature key by exploiting a cryptographic weakness in the signature algorithm or pseudorandom number generation and then uses this key to forge signatures from the original signer to mislead a victim into performing actions that benefit the attacker.
  • Session Credential Falsification through Prediction CAPEC-59 This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.

Vulnerable Configurations

  • cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt6890:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt6890:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt7612:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt7612:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt7613:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt7613:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt7615:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt7615:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt7622:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt7622:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt7626:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt7626:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt7629:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt7629:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt7915:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt7915:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt7916:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt7916:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt7981:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt7981:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt7986:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:h:mediatek:mt7986:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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