What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-31437

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-354

Description

An issue was discovered in systemd 253. An attacker can modify a sealed log file such that, in some views, not all existing and sealed log messages are displayed. NOTE: the vendor reportedly sent "a reply denying that any of the finding was a security vulnerability."

Affected products

• systemd: 253

References

• https://github.com/kastel-security/Journald
• https://github.com/kastel-security/Journald/blob/main/journald-publication.pdf
• https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases
• https://github.com/kastel-security/Journald
• https://github.com/kastel-security/Journald/blob/main/journald-publication.pdf
• https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases

Get alerted when CVE-2023-31437 or the next vulnerability affects your stack