CVE-2025-8746

medium

Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in GNU libopts up to 27.6. Affected is the function __strstr_sse2. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. This issue was initially reported to the tcpreplay project, but the code maintainer explains, that this "bug appears to be in libopts which is an external library." This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

References

https://www.gnu.org/

https://vuldb.com/?submit.623632

https://vuldb.com/?id.319242

https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.319242

https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/957#issuecomment-3124774393

https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/957

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yjKOHxvL_9xExy4QUb5x43dxci1x59ts/view?usp=sharing

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-08-09

Updated: 2025-08-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Severity: Low

CVSS v4

Base Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00015