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Vulnerability details: VCID-4s81-8sg3-cbfu
Vulnerability ID VCID-4s81-8sg3-cbfu
Aliases CVE-2022-48063
Summary GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the function load_separate_debug_files at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file and cause a DNS attack.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.0
Risk 2.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
System Score Found at
epss 0.0001 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-48063
epss 0.0001 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-48063
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epss 0.0001 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-48063
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epss 0.00011 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-48063
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48063
ssvc Track https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0008/
ssvc Track https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29924
ssvc Track https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=75393a2d54bcc40053e5262a3de9d70c5ebfbbfd
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2022-48063.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-48063
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-48063
2233949 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2233949
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2022-48063 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48063
gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=75393a2d54bcc40053e5262a3de9d70c5ebfbbfd https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=75393a2d54bcc40053e5262a3de9d70c5ebfbbfd
ntap-20231006-0008 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0008/
show_bug.cgi?id=29924 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29924
USN-6413-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/6413-1/
USN-6655-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/6655-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48063
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-10-03T15:30:27Z/ Found at https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0008/
Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-10-03T15:30:27Z/ Found at https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29924
Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-10-03T15:30:27Z/ Found at https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=75393a2d54bcc40053e5262a3de9d70c5ebfbbfd
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.00843
EPSS Score 0.0001
Published At Aug. 10, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:36:45.819136+00:00 Ubuntu USN Importer Import https://usn.ubuntu.com/6655-1/ 37.0.0