CVE-2023-39902

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CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

EPSS

<1%p6

Published

Oct 17, 2023 (Oct 17, 2023)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

A software vulnerability has been identified in the U-Boot Secondary Program Loader (SPL) before 2023.07 on select NXP i.MX 8M family processors. Under certain conditions, a crafted Flattened Image Tree (FIT) format structure can be used to overwrite SPL memory, allowing unauthenticated software to execute on the target, leading to privilege escalation. This affects i.MX 8M, i.MX 8M Mini, i.MX 8M Nano, and i.MX 8M Plus.

Vendors: nxp
Products: uboot secondary program loader
Weakness: CWE-281
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.2%)

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