CVE-2025-8846: Nasm Netwide Assembler

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability has been found in NASM Netwide Assember 2.17rc0. Affected is the function parse_line of the file parser.c. The manipulation leads to stack-based buffer overflow. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

Affected products

• Nasm Netwide Assembler: version 2.17 only

Published 2025-08-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.