CVE detail

CVE-2023-4016 — CVE-2023-4016

Published 2023-08-02 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor procps_project · Product procps · Source nvd

LOW

severity

CVSS-derived band

2.5

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0026

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

17.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

Under some circumstances, this weakness allows a user who has access to run the “ps” utility on a machine, the ability to write almost unlimited amounts of unfiltered data into the process heap.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

cvedb.io · NVD · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS · vendor advisories (CVE Program List v5). Informational only, no warranty — verify every remediation against the vendor advisory before acting on it. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD, CISA, FIRST.org or any vendor named. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.