Vulnerability · Published May 17, 2023 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2023-31725
Medium 5.5
In plain English
A medium-severity use-after-free in the yasm package (Debian). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 21% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 78.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
yasm 1.3.0.55.g101bc was discovered to contain a heap-use-after-free via the function expand_mmac_params at yasm/modules/preprocs/nasm/nasm-pp.c.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | yasm | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2023-31725 |
| Debian:13 | yasm | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2023-31725 |
| Debian:14 | yasm | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2023-31725 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | yasm | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-31725 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | yasm | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-31725 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | yasm | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-31725 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | yasm | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-31725 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | yasm | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-31725 |
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-416 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H