CVE-2025-70888

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-03-25. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.5%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

An issue in mtrojnar Osslsigncode affected at v2.10 and before allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via the osslsigncode.c component

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
59
EG Risk 59/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
The EG Score, 9.8 of 10.
Exploitation0.5% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.5%
EPSS %ILE
40th
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

March 25, 2026

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Oct 6, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_pr.
Web page

bug: Validation weaknesses concerning X.509 Key Usage · Issue #60 · ralphje/signify · GitHub

https://github.com/ralphje/signify/issues/60
GitHub pull request Patch Available

Add keyUsage digitalSignature validation for signer certificate

Patch available: mtrojnar/osslsigncode 2.11 (PR #477 merged 2025-12-31)

https://github.com/mtrojnar/osslsigncode/pull/477
Web page

bug: Validation weaknesses concerning X.509 Key Usage · Issue #475 · mtrojnar/osslsigncode · GitHub

https://github.com/mtrojnar/osslsigncode/issues/475

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-70888(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
osslsigncode2.1-1 ... 2.9-2 (21 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
osslsigncode2.10-1 ... 2.9-2 (12 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
osslsigncode2.10-1 ... 2.9-2 (7 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
osslsigncode2.10-1, 2.9-2
  • every version up to 2.11-1: fixed in 2.11-1
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 20× in last 7d / 38× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 270 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 171 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-16 16:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
  2. 2026-10-16 14:40 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-16 14:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m387-6h4v-93hp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-10-15 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
  5. 2026-10-15 15:45 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-15 15:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m387-6h4v-93hp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-10-14 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
  8. 2026-10-14 09:58 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-14 09:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m387-6h4v-93hp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-10-13 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  11. 2026-10-13 08:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m387-6h4v-93hp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-10-12 16:45 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-12 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  14. 2026-10-12 10:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m387-6h4v-93hp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-10-11 20:20 UTCEG score recompute
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  18. 2026-10-11 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
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  43. 2026-08-16 10:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m387-6h4v-93hp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  46. 2026-08-14 23:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m387-6h4v-93hp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  47. 2026-08-14 19:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m387-6h4v-93hp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  51. 2026-08-14 06:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m387-6h4v-93hp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  53. 2026-08-13 04:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m387-6h4v-93hp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  56. 2026-08-12 20:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m387-6h4v-93hp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  58. 2026-08-12 00:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m387-6h4v-93hp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  60. 2026-08-11 20:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m387-6h4v-93hp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  62. 2026-08-11 07:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m387-6h4v-93hp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  64. 2026-08-11 03:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m387-6h4v-93hp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  66. 2026-08-10 12:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m387-6h4v-93hp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  72. 2026-08-09 17:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m387-6h4v-93hp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  74. 2026-08-09 13:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m387-6h4v-93hp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2025-70888?
CVE-2025-70888 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on March 25, 2026. An issue in mtrojnar Osslsigncode affected at v2.10 and before allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via the osslsigncode.c component
When was the CVE record for CVE-2025-70888 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2025-70888 was published on March 25, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of June 17, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2025-70888 actively exploited?
CVE-2025-70888 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (40th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-70888?
CVE-2025-70888 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2025-70888?
A fix for CVE-2025-70888 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2025-70888 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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