CVE-2025-8006: Ashlar Cobalt

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Ashlar-Vellum Cobalt XE File Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Read Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Ashlar-Vellum Cobalt. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of XE files. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in a read past the end of an allocated data structure. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-26238.

Affected products

• Ashlar Cobalt: affected versions not specified

Published 2025-09-17. Last modified 2026-09-26.