CVE-2026-90831CWE-119

CVE-2026-90831

Medium · published September 15, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

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
0.00168 · 5.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Published
2026-09-15T03:18Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
gnu/binutilsall versions—
References (7)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16886 · [email protected]https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34454 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-90831 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/submit/925230 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/vuln/403333 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/vuln/403333/cti · [email protected]https://www.gnu.org/ · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 SEP 03:33Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 14 SEP 22:45Z
    GNU Binutils ELF String Table elf-strtab.c _bfd_elf_strtab_delref memory corruption
    cvelistv5