CVE-2025-69650

FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-69650 is a double free vulnerability in GNU Binutils readelf versions up to 2.46, triggered by processing crafted ELF binaries with malformed relocation data. This flaw can lead to a denial of service due to program termination (SIGABRT), but no evidence of exploitable memory corruption or code execution has been observed. The vulnerability has no assigned CVSS score, a low EPSS score, and a FAUCET Risk Score of 20/100, indicating limited severity. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

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

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.50%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

40.0%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0050 is in the 18th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (1)

microsoft2026-Mar/CVE-2025-69650Important

GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a double free vulnerability when processing a crafted ELF binary with malformed relocation data. During GOT relocation handling, dump_relocations may return early without initializing the all_relocations array. As a result, process_got_section_contents() may pass an uninitialized r_symbol pointer to free(), leading to a double free and terminating the program with SIGABRT. No evidence of exploitable 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 / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi

sourceware.org / git/gitweb.cgi

Patch

sourceware.org / git