CVE-2023-43683 — An issue was discovered in Malwarebytes 4

An issue was discovered in Malwarebytes 4.6.14.326 and before 5.1.5.116 (and Nebula 2020-10-21 and later). A Stack buffer out-of-bounds access exists because of an integer underflow when handling newline characters.

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered in Malwarebytes 4.6.14.326 and before 5.1.5.116 (and Nebula 2020-10-21 and later). A Stack buffer out-of-bounds access exists because of an integer underflow when handling newline characters.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2025-08-14T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-08-15T16:28:35.738Z

09References

• www.malwarebytes.com — https://www.malwarebytes.com/secure/cves/cve-2023-43683