CVE-2025-48498: Bloomberg COMDB2

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A null pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the Distributed Transaction component of Bloomberg Comdb2 8.1 when processing a number of fields used for coordination. A specially crafted protocol buffer message can lead to a denial of service. An attacker can simply connect to a database instance over TCP and send the crafted message to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Bloomberg COMDB2: version 8.1 only

Published 2025-07-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.