{"api_version":"1","generated_at":"2026-07-23T22:43:17+00:00","cve":"CVE-2023-33248","urls":{"html":"https://cve.report/CVE-2023-33248","api":"https://cve.report/api/cve/CVE-2023-33248.json","docs":"https://cve.report/api","cve_org":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-33248","nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-33248"},"summary":{"title":"CVE-2023-33248","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.","state":"PUBLIC","assigner":"cve@mitre.org","published_at":"2023-05-24 22:15:00","updated_at":"2023-06-01 17:20:00"},"problem_types":["NVD-CWE-noinfo"],"metrics":[],"references":[{"url":"https://sites.google.com/view/nuitattack/home","name":"https://sites.google.com/view/nuitattack/home","refsource":"MISC","tags":[],"title":"NUIT Attack","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"https://youtu.be/3gEc5ZFWIWo","name":"https://youtu.be/3gEc5ZFWIWo","refsource":"MISC","tags":[],"title":"Please update your browser","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"404"},{"url":"https://cios2023.org/papers","name":"https://cios2023.org/papers","refsource":"MISC","tags":[],"title":"International Conference on Cloud, IoT and Security (CIOS 2023)","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"404"},{"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10358","name":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10358","refsource":"MISC","tags":[],"title":"[2305.10358] NUANCE: Near Ultrasound Attack On Networked Communication Environments","mime":"text/xml","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23fall-prepub-261-xia-qi.pdf","name":"https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23fall-prepub-261-xia-qi.pdf","refsource":"MISC","tags":[],"title":"","mime":"application/pdf","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"https://github.com/reveondivad/nuance","name":"https://github.com/reveondivad/nuance","refsource":"MISC","tags":[],"title":"GitHub - reveondivad/nuance: Hardware and software matrix updated for near ultrasonic attack testing","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"404"},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-33248","name":"CVE Program record","refsource":"CVE.ORG","tags":["canonical"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-33248","name":"NVD vulnerability detail","refsource":"NVD","tags":["canonical","analysis"]}],"affected":[],"timeline":[],"solutions":[],"workarounds":[],"exploits":[],"credits":[],"nvd_cpes":[{"cve_year":"2023","cve_id":"33248","vulnerable":"1","versionEndIncluding":"","cpe1":"cpe","cpe2":"2.3","cpe3":"o","cpe4":"amazon","cpe5":"alexa","cpe6":"8960323972","cpe7":"*","cpe8":"*","cpe9":"*","cpe10":"*","cpe11":"*","cpe12":"*","cpe13":"*"},{"cve_year":"2023","cve_id":"33248","vulnerable":"-1","versionEndIncluding":"","cpe1":"cpe","cpe2":"2.3","cpe3":"h","cpe4":"amazon","cpe5":"echo_dot","cpe6":"-","cpe7":"*","cpe8":"2nd_gen","cpe9":"*","cpe10":"*","cpe11":"*","cpe12":"*","cpe13":"*"},{"cve_year":"2023","cve_id":"33248","vulnerable":"-1","versionEndIncluding":"","cpe1":"cpe","cpe2":"2.3","cpe3":"h","cpe4":"amazon","cpe5":"echo_dot","cpe6":"-","cpe7":"*","cpe8":"3rd_gen","cpe9":"*","cpe10":"*","cpe11":"*","cpe12":"*","cpe13":"*"}],"vendor_comments":[],"enrichments":{"kev":null,"epss":null,"legacy_qids":[]},"source_records":{"cve_program":{"CVE_data_meta":{"ASSIGNER":"cve@mitre.org","ID":"CVE-2023-33248","STATE":"PUBLIC"},"affects":{"vendor":{"vendor_data":[{"product":{"product_data":[{"product_name":"n/a","version":{"version_data":[{"version_value":"n/a"}]}}]},"vendor_name":"n/a"}]}},"data_format":"MITRE","data_type":"CVE","data_version":"4.0","description":{"description_data":[{"lang":"eng","value":"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."}]},"problemtype":{"problemtype_data":[{"description":[{"lang":"eng","value":"n/a"}]}]},"references":{"reference_data":[{"url":"https://cios2023.org/papers","refsource":"MISC","name":"https://cios2023.org/papers"},{"url":"https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23fall-prepub-261-xia-qi.pdf","refsource":"MISC","name":"https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23fall-prepub-261-xia-qi.pdf"},{"url":"https://sites.google.com/view/nuitattack/home","refsource":"MISC","name":"https://sites.google.com/view/nuitattack/home"},{"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10358","refsource":"MISC","name":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10358"},{"refsource":"MISC","name":"https://github.com/reveondivad/nuance","url":"https://github.com/reveondivad/nuance"},{"refsource":"MISC","name":"https://youtu.be/3gEc5ZFWIWo","url":"https://youtu.be/3gEc5ZFWIWo"}]}},"nvd":{"publishedDate":"2023-05-24 22:15:00","lastModifiedDate":"2023-06-01 17:20:00","problem_types":["NVD-CWE-noinfo"],"metrics":{"baseMetricV3":{"cvssV3":{"version":"3.1","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H","attackVector":"ADJACENT_NETWORK","attackComplexity":"LOW","privilegesRequired":"NONE","userInteraction":"REQUIRED","scope":"UNCHANGED","confidentialityImpact":"LOW","integrityImpact":"HIGH","availabilityImpact":"HIGH","baseScore":7.6,"baseSeverity":"HIGH"},"exploitabilityScore":2.1,"impactScore":5.5}},"configurations":{"CVE_data_version":"4.0","nodes":[{"operator":"AND","children":[{"operator":"OR","children":[],"cpe_match":[{"vulnerable":true,"cpe23Uri":"cpe:2.3:o:amazon:alexa:8960323972:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe_name":[]}]},{"operator":"OR","children":[],"cpe_match":[{"vulnerable":false,"cpe23Uri":"cpe:2.3:h:amazon:echo_dot:-:*:3rd_gen:*:*:*:*:*","cpe_name":[]},{"vulnerable":false,"cpe23Uri":"cpe:2.3:h:amazon:echo_dot:-:*:2nd_gen:*:*:*:*:*","cpe_name":[]}]}],"cpe_match":[]}]}},"legacy_mitre":{"record":null,"notes":[]}}}