CVE intelligence

CVE-2025-1178

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Feb 11, 2025Sources checked Oct 3, 2026

5.6MEDIUMCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2025-1178 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.6. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

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CBL-Mariner Releases

Vendor-listed releases

2.37-13
2.41-3
13.2-9

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.8%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2025-1178?

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function bfd_putl64 of the file libbfd.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. The attack can be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of the patch is 75086e9de1707281172cc77f178e7949a4414ed0. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.