🛡️ CVE-2025-1178 — active-iq-unified-manager

🟡 CVSS 5.6 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-119 NVD

5.6

CVSS Score

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Description

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-1178 is classified as CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Buffer Bounds. A read or write is performed without confirming it stays inside the allocated buffer, corrupting adjacent memory.

Affected software

CVE-2025-1178 is recorded against 3 packages.

active-iq-unified-manager
binutils
ontap-select-deploy-administration-utility

Timeline and source

Published on 11 February 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

sourceware.org
sourceware.org
sourceware.org
vuldb.com
vuldb.com
vuldb.com
www.gnu.org
security.netapp.com
sourceware.org

CVE-2025-1178 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

BellSoft Debian Debian 12 (Root.io)Ubuntu

Details

Severity MEDIUM

CVSS Score 5.6

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE CWE-119

Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes

Source NVD

Published 2025-02-11

Updated 2026-08-20

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
active-iq-unified-manager	—	—
binutils	—	—
ontap-select-deploy-administration-utility	—	—

References

Broken Link https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=15914

Broken Link https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32638

Broken Link https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=75086e9de1707281172cc77f178e7949a4414ed0

Permissions Required, VDB Entry https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.295081

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry https://vuldb.com/?id.295081

Exploit, VDB Entry https://vuldb.com/?submit.495369

Product https://www.gnu.org/

Third Party Advisory https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250411-0008/

Broken Link https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32638

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