What is CVE-2023-53156?

CVE-2023-53156 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ejmahler Transpose, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 4.5/10. Published 2025-07-27.

How severe is CVE-2023-53156?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.5 out of 10.

Integer overflow in Ejmahler Transpose

CVE-2023-53156

The transpose crate before 0.2.3 for Rust allows an integer overflow via input_width and input_height arguments.

Vulnerability class: Integer Overflow

Published 2025-07-27 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (20.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 21st percentile — 20.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Ejmahler Transpose — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0080.html (Third Party Advisory)
github.com/ejmahler/transpose/issues/11 (Issue Tracking)
github.com/advisories/GHSA-5gmm-6m36-r7jh (Third Party Advisory)
crates.io/crates/transpose (Product)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-53156?: CVE-2023-53156 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ejmahler Transpose, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 4.5/10. Published 2025-07-27.
How severe is CVE-2023-53156?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.5 out of 10.