How severe is CVE-2023-4211?

CVE-2023-4211 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5 (MEDIUM). EPSS estimates a 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2023-4211: Mali GPU Kernel Driver Allows Improper GPU Memory

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver Use-After-Free Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2023-10-03

Remediation due

2023-10-24

Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

CISA notes
https://developer.arm.com/Arm%20Security%20Center/Mali%20GPU%20Driver%20Vulnerabilities; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4211

Description

A local non-privileged user can make improper GPU memory processing operations to gain access to already freed memory.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA5.5 MEDIUM

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Arm Ltd	Midgard GPU Kernel Driver	r12p0 to r32p0
Arm Ltd	Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver	r0p0 to r42p0
Arm Ltd	Valhall GPU Kernel Driver	r19p0 to r42p0
Arm Ltd	Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver	r41p0 to r42p0

References

1 Links

Other references

https://developer.arm.com/Arm%20Security%20Center/Mali%20GPU%20Driver%20Vulnerabilities

Record Details

Published

2023-10-01

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

Arm

Credited to

Maddie Stone, Google Threat Analysis Group; Jann Horn, Google Project Zero

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