CVE-2026-6068CRITICAL 9.6EPSS p35.1%

CVE-2026-6068CVE-2026-6068

Description

NASM contains a heap use after free vulnerability in response file (-@) processing where a dangling pointer to freed memory is stored in the global depend_file and later dereferenced, as the response-file buffer is freed before the pointer is used, allowing for data corruption or remote code execution.

Scoring

CVSS 3.19.6 (CRITICAL)
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS0.43% probability of exploitation · percentile 35.1% · 2026-08-03T12:00:16Z
Published2026-04-10
Last modified2026-05-26

Underlying weaknesses· 1

CWE-416

References

  1. https://github.com/netwide-assembler/nasm/issues/222
  2. https://sekai.team/blog/nasm-cve-disclosure/cve-2026-6068

1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
WeaknessUse After Freecwe-4160%live

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