CVE-2026-6068

critical

Description

NASM contains a heap use after free vulnerability in response file (-@) processing where a dangling pointer to freed memory is stored in the global depend_file and later dereferenced, as the response-file buffer is freed before the pointer is used, allowing for data corruption or remote code execution.

References

https://sekai.team/blog/nasm-cve-disclosure/cve-2026-6068

https://github.com/netwide-assembler/nasm/issues/222

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-04-10

Updated: 2026-05-26

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

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

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.6

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00028