CVE-2023-33248
Amazon Alexa software version 8960323972 on Echo Dot 2nd generation and 3rd generation devices potentially allows attackers to deliver…
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Description
Amazon Alexa software version 8960323972 on Echo Dot 2nd generation and 3rd generation devices potentially allows attackers to deliver security-relevant commands via an audio signal between 16 and 22 kHz (often outside the range of human adult hearing). Commands at these frequencies are essentially never spoken by authorized actors, but a substantial fraction of the commands are successful.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 days later
· 3 days later
Published
- 20 months later
· 20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.67% · top 48% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.6.
Weakness
- n/a
- CWE-noinfo Not enough information
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- https://cios2023.org/papers (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23fall-prepub-261-xia-qi.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://sites.google.com/view/nuitattack/home (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10358 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/reveondivad/nuance (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://youtu.be/3gEc5ZFWIWo (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
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)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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