CVE-2023-1295

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    CVE-2023-1295

    Published: 28 Jun 2023Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: Privilege escalation with IO_RING_OP_CLOSE in the Linux Kernel

    Details: A time-of-check to time-of-use issue exists in io_uring subsystem's IORING_OP_CLOSE operation in the Linux kernel's versions 5.6 - 5.11 (inclusive), which allows a local user to elevate their privileges to root. Introduced in b5dba59e0cf7e2cc4d3b3b1ac5fe81ddf21959eb, patched in 9eac1904d3364254d622bf2c771c4f85cd435fc2, backported to stable in 788d0824269bef539fe31a785b1517882eafed93.

    References: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b5dba59e0cf7e2cc4d3b3b1ac5fe81ddf21959eb, https://kernel.dance/788d0824269bef539fe31a785b1517882eafed93, https://kernel.dance/9eac1904d3364254d622bf2c771c4f85cd435fc2, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/1xxx/CVE-2023-1295.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1295, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230731-0006/, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=788d0824269bef539fe31a785b1517882eafed93, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9eac1904d3364254d622bf2c771c4f85cd435fc2

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 7111951b8d4973bda27ff663f2cf18b663d15b48
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    v5.10

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    CVE-2023-1295 | CVE-DB