CVE-2023-51787 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue was discovered in Wind River VxWorks 7 22.09 and 23.03. If a VxWorks task or POSIX thread that uses OpenSSL exits, limited per-task memory is not freed, resulting in a memory leak.

Published: 2024-02-15

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:windriver:vxworks:7:22.09::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:windriver:vxworks:7:23.03::::::

No data.

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-56471	An issue was discovered in Wind River VxWorks 7 22.09 and 23.03. If a VxWorks task or POSIX thread that uses OpenSSL exits, limited per-task memory is not freed, resulting in a memory leak.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00158.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://support2.windriver.com/index.php?page=cve&on=view&id=CVE-2023-51787

History

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:windriver:vxworks:7:22.09:::::: cpe:2.3:o:windriver:vxworks:7:23.03::::::

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-200

Subscriptions

Windriver Vxworks

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-02-15T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-03-18T15:00:59.472Z

Reserved: 2023-12-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-51787

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T22:48:11.379Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-02-15T06:15:46.067

Modified: 2026-01-13T15:26:29.250

Link: CVE-2023-51787

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-200

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