CVE-2026-90831

1.9 lowEPSS 0.2%

Low (1.9) in gnu binutils. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

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

5.3 medium

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

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 6% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
CWE: CWE-119
Published: 2026-09-14
Modified: 2026-09-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gnu:binutils

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16886
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34454
https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-90831
https://vuldb.com/submit/925230
https://vuldb.com/vuln/403333

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