7.8

CVE-2022-47696: gnu binutils Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 7.8v3.1HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-47696DEBIAN-CVE-2022-47696
Published 22-08-2023Last modified 03-10-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-47696 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in gnu binutils. EPSS estimates a 0.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34.4% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
41/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.42%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1reference

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 3
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13411-1SUSE-SU-2023:3695-1SUSE-SU-2023:3825-1

Timeline

  1. 22-08-2023
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-10-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via function compare_symbols.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.42%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

34%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.42% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
0.42%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (sourceware.org)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • binutils< 2.39.50.20221208-2
Gnu1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • binutils< 2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm1 | < 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm6 | < 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.9 | < 2.34-6ubuntu1.5 | < 2.38-4ubuntu2.2

3 vendors · 3 products

References

6 links