CVE-2023-53159MediumMicrosoft CVSS 4.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L

Microsoft advisory for CVE-2023-53159

Published
September 4, 2025
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2023-53159 →

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products3

  • azl3 rust 1.75.0-16 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 rust 1.86.0-3 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • cbl2 rpm-ostree 2022.1-7 on CBL Mariner 2.0

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2023-53159

EchelonGraph score
4.5 MEDIUM
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

The openssl crate before 0.10.55 for Rust allows an out-of-bounds read via an empty string to X509VerifyParamRef::set_host.

Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2023-53159, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (1)