CVE record · CVE-2025-8224

GNU Binutils BFD Library elf.c bfd_elf_get_str_section null pointer dereference

CVSS 4.8 MediumEPSS 0.0027 · 19th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: VulDB) at 27 Jul 2025, 05:32 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
GNU Binutils
  • affected 2.44
Identifiers
CVE-2025-8224
CNA
VulDB
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-404 · CWE-476
Published
27 Jul 2025
Updated
15 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
4.8 Medium 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P CNA (VulDB)Used for this record
3.3 Low 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C CNA (VulDB)
3.3 Low 3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C CNA (VulDB)
1.7 Low 2.0 AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C CNA (VulDB)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0027, the 19th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 27 Jul 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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