CVE-2026-90830CWE-404CWE-476

CVE-2026-90830

Medium · published September 15, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A security vulnerability has been detected in GNU Binutils 2.47. Impacted is the function _bfd_write_merged_section of the file bfd/merge.c of the component Section Merge. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. The attack needs to be performed locally. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. The project was informed of the problem early through a bug report but has not responded yet.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
4.8 · 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
EPSS
0.00165 · 5.4th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-404 · Improper Resource Shutdown or Release; CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2026-09-15T03:18Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
gnu/binutilsall versions—
References (7)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16884 · [email protected]https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34452 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-90830 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/submit/925229 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/vuln/403332 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/vuln/403332/cti · [email protected]https://www.gnu.org/ · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 SEP 03:33Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 14 SEP 22:30Z
    GNU Binutils Section Merge merge.c _bfd_write_merged_section null pointer dereference
    cvelistv5