CVE-2023-43641

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.5

Description

libcue provides an API for parsing and extracting data from CUE sheets. Versions 2.2.1 and prior are vulnerable to out-of-bounds array access. A user of the GNOME desktop environment can be exploited by downloading a cue sheet from a malicious webpage. Because the file is saved to `~/Downloads`, it is then automatically scanned by tracker-miners. And because it has a .cue filename extension, tracker-miners use libcue to parse the file. The file exploits the vulnerability in libcue to gain code execution. This issue is patched in version 2.3.0.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-43641

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-43641.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.2.1-4
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.2.1-4+deb12u1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.2.1-3+deb11u1
debian debianforkyfixed2.2.1-4.1
debian debiansidfixed2.2.1-4.1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.2.1-4.1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.