CVE-2023-53076 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Details

CVE-2023-53076
Vulnerability Scoring

Analysis In Progress
Analysis In Progress

Attack Complexity Details

  • Attack Complexity:
    Attack Complexity Analysis In Progress
  • Attack Vector:
    Attack Vector Under Analysis
  • Privileges Required: None
    No authentication is required for exploitation.
  • Scope:
    Impact is confined to the initially vulnerable component.
  • User Interaction: None
    No user interaction is necessary for exploitation.

CVE-2023-53076 Details

Status: Received on 02 May 2025, 16:15 UTC

Published on: 02 May 2025, 16:15 UTC

CVSS Release:

CVE-2023-53076 Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2023-53076: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Adjust insufficient default bpf_jit_limit We've seen recent AWS EKS (Kubernetes) user reports like the following: After upgrading EKS nodes from v20230203 to v20230217 on our 1.24 EKS clusters after a few days a number of the nodes have containers stuck in ContainerCreating state or liveness/readiness probes reporting the following error: Readiness probe errored: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = failed to exec in container: failed to start exec "4a11039f730203ffc003b7[...]": OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: unable to start container process: unable to init seccomp: error loading seccomp filter into kernel: error loading seccomp filter: errno 524: unknown However, we had not been seeing this issue on previous AMIs and it only started to occur on v20230217 (following the upgrade from kernel 5.4 to 5.10) with no other changes to the underlying cluster or workloads. We tried the suggestions from that issue (sysctl net.core.bpf_jit_limit=452534528) which helped to immediately allow containers to be created and probes to execute but after approximately a day the issue returned and the value returned by cat /proc/vmallocinfo | grep bpf_jit | awk '{s+=$2} END {print s}' was steadily increasing. I tested bpf tree to observe bpf_jit_charge_modmem, bpf_jit_uncharge_modmem their sizes passed in as well as bpf_jit_current under tcpdump BPF filter, seccomp BPF and native (e)BPF programs, and the behavior all looks sane and expected, that is nothing "leaking" from an upstream perspective. The bpf_jit_limit knob was originally added in order to avoid a situation where unprivileged applications loading BPF programs (e.g. seccomp BPF policies) consuming all the module memory space via BPF JIT such that loading of kernel modules would be prevented. The default limit was defined back in 2018 and while good enough back then, we are generally seeing far more BPF consumers today. Adjust the limit for the BPF JIT pool from originally 1/4 to now 1/2 of the module memory space to better reflect today's needs and avoid more users running into potentially hard to debug issues.

Assessing the Risk of CVE-2023-53076

Access Complexity Graph

The exploitability of CVE-2023-53076 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-2023-53076

No exploitability data is available for CVE-2023-53076.

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-2023-53076, 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-2023-53076, showing how Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability might be affected if the vulnerability is exploited. Higher values usually signal greater potential damage.

  • Confidentiality: None
    CVE-2023-53076 does not compromise confidentiality.
  • Integrity: None
    CVE-2023-53076 does not impact data integrity.
  • Availability: None
    CVE-2023-53076 does not affect system availability.

CVE-2023-53076 References

External References

CWE Common Weakness Enumeration

Unknown

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