CVE-2023-6481Logback "receiver" DOS vulnerability CVE-2023-6378 incomplete fix
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 0.68%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 47% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A serialization vulnerability in logback receiver component part of logback version 1.4.13, 1.3.13 and 1.2.12 allows an attacker to mount a Denial-Of-Service attack by sending poisoned data.
Timeline
ID reserved
By NCSC.ch
Published
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NCSC.chCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.68% · top 47% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Affected products
- unaffected 1.4.14
- unaffected 1.3.14
- unaffected 1.2.13
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavench.qos.logback:logback-coreGHSA-gm62-rw4g-vrc4 (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Solution: Only environments where logback receiver component is deployed may be vulnerable. In case a logback receiver is deployed, restricting connections to trustworthy clients or upgrading to logback version 1.4.14, 1.3.14, 1.2.13 or later will remedy the vulnerability. If you do not need to deploy logback-receiver, then please verify that you do not have any <receiver></receiver> entries in your configuration files.
Workaround: Logback versions 1.2.13 and later, 1.3.14 and later or 1.4.14 and later provides fixes. However, please note that these fixes are only effective when deployed under Java 9 or later.
References
References2
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-3212 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-gm62-rw4g-vrc4 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-6481)Record last updated .