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CVE-2025-8846VulnerabilityPublished

CVE-2025-8846: NASM Netwide Assember · Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affects NASM Netwide AssemberSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 4.8 Medium.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 06:26 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
4.8Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 21% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
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

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 11 Aug 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-26.

What to do

AI-suggested

2) Restrict NASM usage to trusted users and environments, limiting local access to systems where NASM is installed to reduce the attack surface. 3) Implement strict access controls and user privilege management to prevent untrusted users from executing or influencing NASM processes. 4) Employ application whitelisting and integrity verification for NASM binaries and related build tools to detect unauthorized modifications. 5) Conduct regular security audits and code reviews of assembly-related build processes to identify unusual behavior or potential exploitation attempts. 6) Use sandboxing or containerization for NASM execution environments to isolate potential exploitation impacts. 7) Educate developers and system administrators about the vulnerability and the importance of applying updates promptly. 8) Monitor system logs and behavior for signs of exploitation attempts, especially on developer workstations and build servers. These targeted measures go beyond generic patching advice by focusing on access control, environment isolation, and operational security tailored to NASM usage scenarios.

Description

A vulnerability has been found in NASM Netwide Assember 2.17rc0. Affected is the function parse_line of the file parser.c. The manipulation leads to stack-based buffer overflow. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

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