CVE-2025-8842

1.9 lowEPSS 0.2%

Low (1.9) in nasm netwide assembler. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

1.9 low

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/E:P

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 14% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-416, CWE-119
Published: 2025-08-11
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

nasm:netwide_assembler

References

https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392933
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11vEV1vMHXO4BrDGhvWAMm0Qo1woiUwVV/view?usp=drive_link
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.319376
https://vuldb.com/?id.319376
https://vuldb.com/?submit.623184

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