CVE-2025-8842

medium

Description

A vulnerability has been found in NASM Netwide Assember 2.17rc0. Affected by this issue is the function do_directive of the file preproc.c. The manipulation leads to use after free. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

References

https://vuldb.com/?submit.623184

https://vuldb.com/?id.319376

https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.319376

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11vEV1vMHXO4BrDGhvWAMm0Qo1woiUwVV/view?usp=drive_link

https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392933

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-08-11

Updated: 2025-08-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 4.8

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00013