CVE-2025-48769

CVE-2025-48769: Apache NuttX RTOS: fs/vfs/fs_rename: use after free

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache NuttX RTOS
Weakness CWE-416
Published January 1, 2026
Last update January 5, 2026

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What the vulnerability does

Description

Use After Free vulnerability was discovered in fs/vfs/fs_rename code of the Apache NuttX RTOS, that due recursive implementation and single buffer use by two different pointer variables allowed arbitrary user provided size buffer reallocation and write to the previously freed heap chunk, that in specific cases could cause unintended virtual filesystem rename/move operation results. This issue affects Apache NuttX RTOS: from 7.20 before 12.11.0. Users of virtual filesystem based services with write access especially when exposed over the network (i.e. FTP) are affected and recommended to upgrade to version 12.11.0 that fixes the issue.

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Disclosure timeline

January 1, 2026 CVE published
January 5, 2026 Record updated