CVE-2026-90831

medium

Description

A vulnerability was detected in GNU Binutils 2.47. The affected element is the function _bfd_elf_strtab_delref of the file bfd/elf-strtab.c of the component ELF String Table. The manipulation results in memory corruption. The attack requires a local approach. The exploit is now public and may be used. The project was informed of the problem early through a bug report but has not responded yet.

References

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https://vuldb.com/vuln/403333

https://vuldb.com/submit/925230

https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-90831

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34454

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16886

https://www.gnu.org/

https://vuldb.com/vuln/403333/cti

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-14

Updated: 2026-09-16

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: 0.00152