CVE-2023-4162: Broadcom Fabric Operating System

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A segmentation fault can occur in Brocade Fabric OS after Brocade Fabric OS v9.0 and before Brocade Fabric OS v9.2.0a through the passwdcfg command. This could allow an authenticated privileged user local user to crash a Brocade Fabric OS swith using the cli “passwdcfg --set -expire -minDiff“.

Affected products

• Broadcom Fabric Operating System: from 9.0.1a, before 9.2.0a (fixed in 9.2.0a)

Published 2023-08-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.