CVE-2023-53715

wifi: brcmfmac: cfg80211: Pass the PMK in binary instead of hex

published October 22, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: brcmfmac: cfg80211: Pass the PMK in binary instead of hex

Apparently the hex passphrase mechanism does not work on newer

chips/firmware (e.g. BCM4387). It seems there was a simple way of

passing it in binary all along, so use that and avoid the hexification.

OpenBSD has been doing it like this from the beginning, so this should

work on all chips.

Also clear the structure before setting the PMK. This was leaking

uninitialized stack contents to the device.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00210 · 10.6th percentile
Published
2025-10-22T13:23Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 OCT 13:23Z
    wifi: brcmfmac: cfg80211: Pass the PMK in binary instead of hex
    cvelistv5