yasm commit 9defefae was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the yasm_section_bcs_append function at section.c.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2024-22653 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.22%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
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| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-03-25 | 0.07% | 0.22% | +0.16% |
| 2 | 2026-02-12 | 0.04% | 0.07% | +0.02% |
| 3 | 2025-11-21 | — | 0.04% | — |
Full EPSS history (7 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.8 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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2.2 | 2.5 | 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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unimportant | CVE-2024-22653 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (yasm), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-22653 |
redhat
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medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-22653 |
suse
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low | CVE-2024-22653 severity low: SUSE including 2 source package names (yasm, yasm-devel), 34 product×package rows across 18 product lines (SLES-LTSS-TERADATA 15 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS, … (18 product lines)): Will Not Fix 34. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-22653/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2024-22653 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (yasm), 9 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, upstream, xenial): needs-triage 7, ignored 2. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-22653 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| yasm_project | yasm | 2023-09-22 | cpe:2.3:a:yasm_project:yasm:2023-09-22:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://gist.github.com/TimChan2001/03e5792b15d0a34bfaad970e37c17660 | Third Party Advisory |
| https://github.com/yasm/yasm/issues/247 | Exploit Issue Tracking |