CVE-2023-3338

HIGHNVD 6.57.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2023-07-01. NVD baseline CVSS 6.5; sources differ by 1.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekElevated

Also known asEUVD-2023-44006 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-qj9w-7hh5-mf2q (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

7.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 8.5%CVSS: 6.5Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel's DECnet networking protocol. This issue could allow a remote user to crash the system.

CVSS v3
6.5
EG Score
7.5HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
50
EG Risk 50/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity75% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
8.5%
EPSS %ILE
95th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (7.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.5 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
8.5% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-28). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

June 30, 2023

Last Modified

October 14, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Oct 14, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Web page

[SECURITY] [DSA 5480-1] linux security update

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5480
Web page

oss-sec: CVE-2023-3338: Linux Kernel NULL Pointer Dereference in DECnet

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q2/276
Web pageMentions a patch (unverified)

[SECURITY] [DLA 3623-1] linux-5.10 security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00027.html
Web pageMentions a patch (unverified)

[SECURITY] [DLA 3508-1] linux security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00030.html
Red Hat

2218618 – (CVE-2023-3338) CVE-2023-3338 kernel: DECnet: crash due to a NULL pointer dereference in the dn_nsp_send function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218618
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

CVE-2023-3338 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3338

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-3338(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(6)

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(6 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:10(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux4.19.118-1 ... 4.19.98-1~bpo9+1 (43 versions)
  • every version up to 4.19.289-1: fixed in 4.19.289-1
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linux-5.105.10.136-1~deb10u1 ... 5.10.179-5~deb10u1 (10 versions)
  • every version up to 5.10.197-1~deb10u1: fixed in 5.10.197-1~deb10u1
—
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux5.10.103-1 ... 5.10.92-2 (33 versions)
  • every version up to 5.10.191-1: fixed in 5.10.191-1
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux—
  • every version up to 6.1.4-1: fixed in 6.1.4-1
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux—
  • every version up to 6.1.4-1: fixed in 6.1.4-1
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux—
  • every version up to 6.1.4-1: fixed in 6.1.4-1
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(6)

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 43× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 90 of 217 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 10 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 127 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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  6. 2026-10-29 05:07 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-29 05:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qj9w-7hh5-mf2q · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  18. 2026-10-21 22:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qj9w-7hh5-mf2q · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  1. 2026-10-15 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 8.5% · 94th percentile
  2. 2026-10-14 21:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qj9w-7hh5-mf2q · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  3. 2026-10-14 21:03 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-14 21:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qj9w-7hh5-mf2q · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 GitHub PoC). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • GitHub PoCTurtleARM/CVE-2023-3338-DECPwn
    Published Jun 29, 2023

    Linux kernel LPE practice with an NPD vulnerability

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2023-3338?
CVE-2023-3338 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on June 30, 2023. A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel's DECnet networking protocol. This issue could allow a remote user to crash the system.
When was CVE-2023-3338 made public?
CVE-2023-3338 was made public on June 26, 2023: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Red Hat, Inc., gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on June 30, 2023. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 14, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2023-3338 actively exploited?
CVE-2023-3338 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 8.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (95th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-3338?
CVE-2023-3338 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 7.5 (HIGH).
How do I remediate CVE-2023-3338?
A fix for CVE-2023-3338 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2023-3338 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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