CVE-2022-44840

7.8 highEPSS 0.5%

High (7.8) in gnu binutils. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function find_section_in_set in file readelf.c.

Severity

7.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 42% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-787
Published: 2023-08-22
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19