CVE-2025-15535 (GCVE-0-2025-15535)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-18 07:32 – Updated: 2026-02-23 08:37
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
nicbarker clay clay.h Clay__MeasureTextCached null pointer dereference
Summary
A security flaw has been discovered in nicbarker clay up to 0.14. This affects the function Clay__MeasureTextCached in the library clay.h. The manipulation results in null pointer dereference. The attack is only possible with local access. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-21 18:46 UTC
Assigner
References
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|---|---|
| https://vuldb.com/?id.341707 | vdb-entrytechnical-description |
| https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.341707 | signaturepermissions-required |
| https://vuldb.com/?submit.733346 | third-party-advisory |
| https://github.com/nicbarker/clay/issues/566 | issue-tracking |
| https://github.com/oneafter/1215/blob/main/repro | exploit |
| https://github.com/nicbarker/clay/ | product |
Impacted products
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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