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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.17CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nasm:netwide_assembler:2.17:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 4.0
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
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.