CVE-2023-4911

HIGHPre-NVD 7.89.0▲
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-11-21), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. the CNA's CVSS baseline 7.8 retained for reference (NVD's own analysis pending). Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: cisa_kev, cna:redhat, epss, ghsa
Trending — 5 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
7.8
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS: 81%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code with elevated privileges.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
9.0(high)
EG Risk
81(Attend)
EG Risk 81/100SSVC: Attend

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity90% × 45%
Exploitation100% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Remediate soon — notable exploitation risk.
EPSS
99.6%
KEV
⚠ Exploited

Published

October 3, 2023

Last Modified

July 14, 2026

Advisory Details (9)

Auto-updated May 12, 2026
🔬 Proof of concept available. Patch available. Sources: redhat.
generic

CVE-2023-4911: Local Privilege Escalation in glibc’s ld.so | Qualys

https://www.qualys.com/cve-2023-4911/
generic🟡 PoC Available
https://www.qualys.com/2023/10/03/cve-2023-4911/looney-tunables-local-privilege-escalation-glibc-ld-so.txt
redhat Patch Available

2238352 – (CVE-2023-4911) CVE-2023-4911 glibc: buffer overflow in ld.so leading to privilege escalation

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238352
redhat Patch Available

cve-details

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4911
redhat Patch Available

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0033
redhat Patch Available

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5476
redhat Patch Available

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5455
redhat Patch Available

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5454
redhat Patch Available

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5453

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-4911(1)

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

Patch Availability(6)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntunscd (2.37-0ubuntu2.1) @ lunar2026-07-22ubuntu
redhatredhat-virtualization-host-0:4.5.3-202312060823_8.62024-01-03redhat
redhatglibc-0:2.28-225.el8_8.62023-10-05redhat
redhatglibc-0:2.28-189.6.el8_62023-10-05redhat
redhatglibc-0:2.34-60.el9_2.72023-10-05redhat
redhatglibc-0:2.34-28.el9_0.42023-10-05redhat

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.

Weakness Classification(2)

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

Additional Vendor Advisories

(6)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 0× in last 7d / 0× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. 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. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-07-23 02:28 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-07-22 22:02 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-07-22 22:02 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-07-22 22:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-07-22 19:40 UTCCISA KEV update
  6. 2026-07-22 17:55 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-07-22 17:55 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-07-22 17:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-07-22 14:06 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-07-22 13:47 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-07-22 13:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-07-22 09:41 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-07-22 09:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-07-22 05:36 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-07-22 05:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-07-22 01:29 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-07-22 01:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-07-21 21:22 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-07-21 21:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-07-21 17:12 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-07-21 17:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-07-21 14:37 UTCCISA KEV update
  23. 2026-07-21 13:05 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-07-21 13:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-07-21 09:00 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-07-21 08:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-07-21 04:52 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-07-21 04:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-07-21 00:47 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-07-21 00:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-07-20 20:41 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-07-20 20:41 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-07-20 20:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-07-20 17:06 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-07-20 16:35 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-07-20 16:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-07-20 12:28 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-07-20 12:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-07-20 08:21 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-07-20 08:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-07-20 04:16 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-07-20 04:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-07-20 00:10 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-07-20 00:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-07-19 20:03 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-07-19 20:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-07-19 15:57 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-07-19 15:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-07-19 11:51 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-07-19 11:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-07-19 07:45 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-07-19 07:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  28. 2026-07-19 03:39 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-07-19 03:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  30. 2026-07-18 23:32 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-07-18 23:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  32. 2026-07-18 19:26 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-07-18 19:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  34. 2026-07-18 15:20 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-07-18 15:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  36. 2026-07-18 11:14 UTCVendor advisory
  37. 2026-07-18 11:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  38. 2026-07-18 07:08 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-07-18 07:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  40. 2026-07-18 03:02 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-07-18 03:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  42. 2026-07-17 22:57 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-07-17 22:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  44. 2026-07-17 18:51 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-07-17 18:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
  46. 2026-07-17 14:45 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-07-17 14:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  48. 2026-07-17 10:38 UTCEG score recompute
  49. 2026-07-17 10:38 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-07-17 10:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  51. 2026-07-17 06:32 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-07-17 06:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  53. 2026-07-17 02:26 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-07-17 02:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  55. 2026-07-16 22:21 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-07-16 22:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  57. 2026-07-16 18:14 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-07-16 18:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  59. 2026-07-16 17:04 UTCCISA KEV update
  60. 2026-07-16 17:01 UTCEPSS rescore
  61. 2026-07-16 14:08 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-07-16 14:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  63. 2026-07-16 10:02 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-07-16 10:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  65. 2026-07-16 05:56 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-07-16 05:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  67. 2026-07-16 01:51 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-07-16 01:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
  69. 2026-07-15 21:45 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-07-15 21:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  71. 2026-07-15 17:38 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-07-15 17:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  73. 2026-07-15 16:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  74. 2026-07-15 16:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  75. 2026-07-15 16:49 UTCCISA KEV update

Publicly available exploits

(10 references)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (9 GitHub PoCs) (1 Exploit-DB entry). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-52479
    First seen Feb 11, 2026

    glibc 2.38 - Buffer Overflow

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCNishanthAnand21/CVE-2023-4911-PoC
    First seen Jan 20, 2024

    Repository containing a Proof of Concept (PoC) demonstrating the impact of CVE-2023-4911, a vulnerability in glibc's ld.so dynamic loader, exposing risks related to Looney Tunables.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCpuckiestyle/CVE-2023-4911
    First seen Dec 23, 2023
    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCDiego-AltF4/CVE-2023-4911
    First seen Oct 28, 2023

    Proof of concept for CVE-2023-4911 (Looney Tunables) discovered by Qualys Threat Research Unit

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCKernelKrise/CVE-2023-4911
    First seen Oct 25, 2023

    Looney Tunables Local privilege escalation (CVE-2023-4911) workshop

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCchaudharyarjun/LooneyPwner
    First seen Oct 17, 2023

    Exploit tool for CVE-2023-4911, targeting the 'Looney Tunables' glibc vulnerability in various Linux distributions.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCruycr4ft/CVE-2023-4911
    First seen Oct 11, 2023

    CVE-2023-4911

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoChadrian3689/looney-tunables-CVE-2023-4911
    First seen Oct 10, 2023
    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCleesh3288/CVE-2023-4911
    First seen Oct 4, 2023

    PoC for CVE-2023-4911

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCRickdeJager/CVE-2023-4911
    First seen Oct 4, 2023

    CVE-2023-4911 proof of concept

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2023-4911?
CVE-2023-4911 is a high vulnerability published on October 3, 2023. A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBCTUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBCTUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code…
When was CVE-2023-4911 disclosed?
CVE-2023-4911 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on October 3, 2023, with the most recent update on July 14, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2023-4911 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2023-4911 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on November 21, 2023, affecting GNU GNU C Library. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate patching attention.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-4911?
CVE-2023-4911 has a CVSS v4.0 base score of 7.8 (CNA self-assessment; NVD's own analysis pending). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0.
Which products are affected by CVE-2023-4911?
CVE-2023-4911 affects GNU GNU C Library. The full affected-products list, including version ranges and fixed versions, is shown in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2023-4911?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2023-4911, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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