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CVE-2024-53589

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-53589 describes a high-severity buffer overflow vulnerability in GNU objdump 2.43, specifically within the BFD library's handling of tekhex format files. This flaw allows for local, low-complexity attacks without user interaction, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the CVSS score is 8.4, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
N/AN/A
n/aCNA affected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.4HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.5
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
19.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0027 is in the 19th percentile among its peer group of 3,241 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (2)

microsoft2024-Dec/CVE-2024-53589Moderate

GNU objdump 2.43 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in the BFD (Binary File Descriptor) library's handling of tekhex format files.

Dec 10, 2024
redhatCVE-2024-53589Moderate

binutils: objdump: buffer Overflow in the BFD library's handling of tekhex format files

Dec 5, 2024

References

security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20250314-0006
bushido-sec.com / index.php/2024/12/05/binutils-objdump-tekhex-buffer-overflow
gnu.org / software/binutils