CVE-2024-25260

Exp

elfutils v0.189 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the handle_verdef() function at readelf.c.

Published: 2024-02-20 Last update: 2025-04-25 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2024-25260 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.30%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2024-25260

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-25260

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 2026-06-15 0.01% 0.30% +0.29%
2 2025-11-21 0.07% 0.01% -0.05%
3 2025-11-18 — 0.07% —

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-25260

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.0 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:L)
Might cause slowdowns, glitches, or partial disruption—not a full brick.
 2.5 1.4 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-25260

OS Trackers for CVE-2024-25260

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2024-25260 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (elfutils), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-25260
redhat low — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-25260
suse medium CVE-2024-25260 severity moderate: SUSE including 20 source package names (debuginfod-dummy-client, elfutils, …), 468 product×package rows across 52 product lines (SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1, … (52 product lines)): Known Not Affected 468. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-25260/
ubuntu low CVE-2024-25260 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (elfutils), 9 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, mantic, noble, oracular, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 6, released 2, ignored 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-25260

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-25260

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
elfutils_project elfutils 0.189 cpe:2.3:a:elfutils_project:elfutils:0.189:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2024-25260

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