CVE-2025-9301 (GCVE-0-2025-9301)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-21 13:32 – Updated: 2025-08-21 13:49
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
cmake cmForEachCommand.cxx ReplayItems assertion
Summary
A vulnerability was determined in cmake 4.1.20250725-gb5cce23. This affects the function cmForEachFunctionBlocker::ReplayItems of the file cmForEachCommand.cxx. This manipulation causes reachable assertion. The attack needs to be launched locally. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be utilized. Patch name: 37e27f71bc356d880c908040cd0cb68fa2c371b8. It is suggested to install a patch to address this issue.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-08-21 13:49 UTC
CWE
- CWE-617 - Reachable Assertion
Assigner
References
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| https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues/27135 | issue-tracking |
| https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues/2… | issue-tracking |
| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TerUqQB8_lzJTwIB… | exploit |
| https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/commit/3… | patch |
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- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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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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