What is CVE-2023-54184?

CVE-2023-54184 is a unscored severity Linux kernel vulnerability, affecting Linux kernel versions from 3.12 onward and patched in 5.4.244, 5.10.181, 5.15.113 and others. CVE-2023-54184 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2023-54184?

CVE-2023-54184 has a CVSS score of pending NVD analysis out of 10, rated awaiting scoring severity.

Is there a patch available for CVE-2023-54184?

Yes, CVE-2023-54184 has been patched. Fixed versions include 5.4.244, 5.10.181, 5.15.113 and others. If you are running Linux kernel 3.12 or later up to the fix versions, apply the relevant patch for your kernel branch.

Is CVE-2023-54184 actively exploited?

CVE-2023-54184 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

CVE-2023-54184

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: target: iscsit: Free cmds before session free Commands from recovery entries are freed after session has been closed. That leads to use-after-free at command free or NPE with such call trace: Time2Retain timer expired for SID: 1, cleaning up iSCSI session. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000140 RIP: 0010:sbitmap_queue_clear+0x3a/0xa0 Call Trace: target_release_cmd_kref+0xd1/0x1f0 [target_core_mod] transport_generic_free_cmd+0xd1/0x180 [target_core_mod] iscsit_free_cmd+0x53/0xd0 [iscsi_target_mod] iscsit_free_connection_recovery_entries+0x29d/0x320 [iscsi_target_mod] iscsit_close_session+0x13a/0x140 [iscsi_target_mod] iscsit_check_post_dataout+0x440/0x440 [iscsi_target_mod] call_timer_fn+0x24/0x140 Move cleanup of recovery enrties to before session freeing.

Package Linux Kernel

Published 2025-12-30

Last modified 2026-04-15

Patch available

Yes

Affected versions

Linux kernel versions 3.12 and later are affected. Fixed in 5.4.244, 5.10.181, 5.15.113, 6.1.30, 6.3.4, 6.4 and their respective stable series.

Affected from

≥ 3.12

Fixed in

✓ 5.4.244 5.4.x ✓ 5.10.181 5.10.x ✓ 5.15.113 5.15.x ✓ 6.1.30 6.1.x ✓ 6.3.4 6.3.x ✓ 6.4

References

The following references provide additional information about CVE-2023-54184 including vendor advisories, patch commits, exploit details, and third-party analysis. Links are sourced from the NIST NVD database.

Kernel patch commit
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1911cca5916b6e106de7afa3ec0a38447158216c
Patch
Kernel patch commit
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4621e24c9257c6379343bf0c11b473817cf7edcd
Patch
Kernel patch commit
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ce221d295f53e6c6b835ab33181e735482c9aac
Patch

6 patch commits total View all on NVD

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-54184?

CVE-2023-54184 is a unscored severity Linux kernel vulnerability . It affects Linux kernel versions from 3.12 onward and has been patched in 5.4.244, 5.10.181, 5.15.113 and others. CVE-2023-54184 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Is there a patch available for CVE-2023-54184?

Yes — CVE-2023-54184 has been patched. Fixed versions include 5.4.244, 5.10.181, 5.15.113 and others. If you are running Linux kernel 3.12 or later up to the fix versions, apply the relevant patch for your kernel branch.
Is CVE-2023-54184 actively exploited?

No — CVE-2023-54184 has not been confirmed as actively exploited. It is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.