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Vulnerability details: VCID-g2fk-pmey-ekh9
Vulnerability ID VCID-g2fk-pmey-ekh9
Aliases CVE-2023-1981
Summary avahi: avahi-daemon can be crashed via DBus
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.6
Risk 2.8
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
System Score Found at
cvssv3 6.2 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2023-1981.json
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1981
ssvc Track https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1981
epss 0.00016 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-1981
epss 0.00016 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-1981
epss 0.00016 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-1981
epss 0.00016 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-1981
epss 0.00016 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-1981
epss 0.00016 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-1981
epss 0.00016 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-1981
epss 0.00016 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-1981
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185911
ssvc Track https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185911
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/375
ssvc Track https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/375
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2023-1981.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-1981
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1981
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
1034594 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1034594
2185911 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185911
375 https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/375
CVE-2023-1981 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1981
RHSA-2023:6707 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6707
RHSA-2023:7190 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7190
USN-6129-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/6129-1/
USN-6129-2 https://usn.ubuntu.com/6129-2/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2023-1981.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1981
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-01-15T21:38:14Z/ Found at https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1981
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185911
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-01-15T21:38:14Z/ Found at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185911
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/375
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-01-15T21:38:14Z/ Found at https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/375
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.0345
EPSS Score 0.00016
Published At April 2, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T13:58:50.266978+00:00 RedHat Importer Import https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2023-1981.json 38.0.0