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CVE-2025-8845

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-8845 is a high-severity stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability affecting NASM Netwide Assembler version 2.17rc0, specifically within the assemble_file function in nasm.c. This flaw allows a local attacker to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. While the exploit has been publicly disclosed, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there readily available exploit modules in common frameworks like Metasploit or Nuclei, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nasm:netwide_assembler:2.17:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

1.9LOW

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/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
LOW
VS Integrity
LOW
VS Availability
LOW
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
PROOF_OF_CONCEPT
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
18.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0027 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2025-Aug/CVE-2025-8845Moderate

NASM Netwide Assember nasm.c assemble_file stack-based overflow

Aug 12, 2025

References

bugzilla.nasm.us / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
drive.google.com / file/d/1pEQb6lcdohWV53DzPPU7kaCCNg-qAaau/view
Exploit
vuldb.com
Permissions RequiredVDB Entry
vuldb.com
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
vuldb.com
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry