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TI-2025-00710 Aliases CVE-2025-0838GHSA-m9gf-vf48-rg58

Heap Buffer overflow in Abseil

Priority LOW 27CWE-190Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Adjacent network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Active
Attack complexity
High
Attack requirements
Present
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
Low · High · Low
Fix status
Partial Red Hat: 1 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.

Summary

There exists a heap buffer overflow vulnerable in Abseil-cpp. The sized constructors, reserve(), and rehash() methods of absl::{flat,node}hash{set,map} did not impose an upper bound on their size argument. As a result, it was possible for a caller to pass a very large size that would cause an integer overflow when computing the size of the container's backing store, and a subsequent out-of-bounds memory write. Subsequent accesses to the container might also access out-of-bounds memory. We recommend upgrading past commit 5a0e2cb5e3958dd90bb8569a2766622cb74d90c1

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00627 50th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial Red Hat: 1 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

No affected products listed by the sources yet.

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:abseil:common_libraries:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 20250127.0Vulnerableabseil
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*11.0VulnerableDebian
  • cpe:2.3:a:abseil:common_libraries:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 20250127.0 Vulnerable ·abseil
  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 11.0 Vulnerable ·Debian

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI)AffectedNo fix yet: Fix deferred

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-0838
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-m9gf-vf48-rg58
  3. 2026-10-30 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile

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