CVE-2025-69652

FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-69652 affects GNU Binutils through version 2.46, specifically its readelf utility, which can be crashed by processing a specially crafted ELF binary containing malformed DWARF debug information. This vulnerability results in a denial of service (SIGABRT) due to incomplete state cleanup leading to an unexpected zero data length during attribute parsing. There is no evidence of memory corruption or code execution, and the vulnerability is not currently being actively exploited, nor is there any known exploit code or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 2.46CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.2MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

2.5

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.17%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

6.9%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-26

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0017 is in the 15th percentile among its peer group of 3,049 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: 20618-17084Fixed in: 2.41-11

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: 21200-17084Fixed in: 2.41-11

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: azl3 binutils 2.41-10 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 2.41-11

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: azl3 binutils 2.41-11 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 2.41-11

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2026-Mar/CVE-2025-69652Moderate

GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a vulnerability that leads to an abort (SIGABRT) when processing a crafted ELF binary with malformed DWARF abbrev or debug information. Due to incomplete state cleanup in process_debug_info(), an invalid debug_info_p state may propagate into DWARF attribute parsing routines. When certain malformed attributes result in an unexpected data length of zero, byte_get_little_endian() triggers a fatal abort. No evidence of memory corruption or code execution was observed; the impact is limited to denial of service.

Mar 10, 2026

References

sourceware.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi

ExploitThird Party Advisory

sourceware.org / git/gitweb.cgi

Patch