CVE-2023-28938

Publication date 11 August 2023

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Uncontrolled resource consumption in some Intel(R) SSD Tools software before version mdadm-4.2-rc2 may allow a priviledged user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

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Why is this CVE low priority?

Denial of service in command line tool option only

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
mdadm	26.04 LTS resolute	Not affected
	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Needs evaluation

Notes

mdeslaur

mdadm generally requires root privileges

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
mdadm	Upstream: ?id=7d3

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 3.4 · Low

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	Low
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	Low

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	3.4 · Low
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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