CVE-2023-1073: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 6.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A memory corruption flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s human interface device (HID) subsystem in how a user inserts a malicious USB device. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 37 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2023-03-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.