CVE-2025-48498

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2025-07-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

A null pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the Distributed Transaction component of Bloomberg Comdb2 8.1 when processing a number of fields used for coordination. A specially crafted protocol buffer message can lead to a denial of service. An attacker can simply connect to a database instance over TCP and send the crafted message to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

Bloomberg Comdb2: 8.1

References

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2199
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2199
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2199

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