What is CVE-2023-53610?

CVE-2023-53610 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2025-10-04.

How severe is CVE-2023-53610?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2023-53610 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2023-53610

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: irqchip: Fix refcount leak in platform_irqchip_probe of_irq_find_parent() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, We should use of_node_put() on it when not needed anymore. Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.

EPSS: 0.001 (3.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Linux — versions f8410e626569324cfe831aaecc0504cafc12b471, 5.9, 0
Linux Linux_kernel

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-53610?: CVE-2023-53610 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2025-10-04.
How severe is CVE-2023-53610?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-53610 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.