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CVE-2023-44488

CVE detail

CVE-2023-44488

VP9 in libvpx before 1.13.1 mishandles widths, leading to a crash related to encoding.

CVSS 7.5 · HighBuzz score 11.9

Buzz score

Why this CVE is surfacing

Buzz score total 11.9

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Buzz score components · mention 6.9 · diversity 5.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0

Mention score

6.9

1 evidence mentions in the snapshot

Diversity score

5.0

1 sources across 1 categories

KEV score

0.0

No KEV entry observed

OTX score

0.0

0 OTX pulses

PoC score

0.0

0 repos · best confidence N/A

Best PoC traction

Maximum stars on a matched PoC repo

Why it matters now

Mention timeline

Total mentions: 0; within the 30d window
Peak daily: 0; highest bucket

Evidence

Source links by recency

Newest mentions first

1 source links · newest first

Yet another Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild! (CVE-2023-5217)Help Net Security
Google has fixed another critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-5217) in Chrome that is being exploited in the wild. About CVE-2023-5217 The vulnerability is caused by a heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx – a video codec library from Google and the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). CVE-2023-5217 has been fixed in Google Chrome 117.0.5938.132 for Windows, Mac and Linux users. Google noted that the exploit for CVE-2023-5217 exists in the wild, so users are … More →
newswww.helpnetsecurity.comSep 28, 2023, 11:46 AM

Exploit code

Public exploit repository references

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0 repository references · best confidence N/A · max 0 stars

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External lookup

Potential internet exposure

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Metadata

Canonical fields

NVD status

Unavailable

Published

Sep 30, 2023

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Official record

Authoritative NVD record

CVSS vector

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

CWE IDs

Vendor classifications

How this vector reads

CVSS 3.1 base metrics decoded below. This explanation does not recalculate or change the NVD score.

Attack Vector (AV): Network. The vulnerable system can be reached across network boundaries.
Attack Complexity (AC): Low. No special conditions beyond the attacker-controlled steps are required.
Privileges Required (PR): None. The attacker needs no privileges on the vulnerable system.
User Interaction (UI): None. Exploitation does not require another user to act.
Scope (S): Unchanged. Impacts remain within the vulnerable security authority.
Confidentiality Impact (C): None. There is no direct impact to this security property.
Integrity Impact (I): None. There is no direct impact to this security property.
Availability Impact (A): High. There is a total or serious impact to this security property.

Signals

Exploitation indicators

0 stored signals · no KEV · 0 OTX pulses