What is CVE-2022-47696?

CVE-2022-47696 is a high-severity vulnerability in GNU Binutils, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2023-08-22.

How severe is CVE-2022-47696?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in GNU Binutils

CVE-2022-47696

An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via function compare_symbols.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2023-08-22 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (34.5th percentile), scored 2026-10-19.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 34th percentile — 34.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

GNU Binutils

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-47696?: CVE-2022-47696 is a high-severity vulnerability in GNU Binutils, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2023-08-22.
How severe is CVE-2022-47696?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.