{"id":"CVE-2025-4993","title":"Untrusted Pointer Dereference vulnerability in RTI Connext Professional (Core Libraries) allows Pointer Manipulation","summary":"Untrusted Pointer Dereference vulnerability in RTI Connext Professional (Core Libraries) allows Pointer Manipulation. This issue affects Connext Professional: from 7.4.0 before 7.6.0, from 7.0.0 before 7.3.0.10, from 6.1.0 before 6.1.2.2…","severity":"critical","cvss":9.1,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H","cwe":["CWE-822"],"vendor":"rti","product":"connext_professional","affected":["connext_professional >= 4.4a, < 6.1.2.27","connext_professional >= 7.0.0, < 7.3.0.10","connext_professional >= 7.4.0, < 7.6.0"],"patched":["connext_professional 7.6.0"],"published":"2025-09-23","updated":"2026-09-22","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-22T18:17:10.183","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4993","references":[{"url":"https://www.rti.com/vulnerabilities/#cve-2025-4993","label":"3f572a00-62e2-4423-959a-7ea25eff1638"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"epss":0.0037,"epssPercentile":0.30881,"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"partial","timestamp":"2025-09-23T18:29:24.647721Z"},"scores":{"nvd":9.1,"cna":8.3},"ingestedAt":"2026-09-22T18:08:12.485Z","slug":"CVE-2025-4993","body":"## Overview\n\nUntrusted Pointer Dereference vulnerability in RTI Connext Professional (Core Libraries) allows Pointer Manipulation. This issue affects Connext Professional: from 7.4.0 before 7.6.0, from 7.0.0 before 7.3.0.10, from 6.1.0 before 6.1.2.27, from 6.0.0 before 6.0.1.43, from 5.3.0 before 5.3.*, from 5.2.0 before 5.2.*, from 4.4a before 5.1.*.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `connext_professional >= 4.4a, < 6.1.2.27`\n- `connext_professional >= 7.0.0, < 7.3.0.10`\n- `connext_professional >= 7.4.0, < 7.6.0`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade past the affected range:\n\n- `connext_professional 7.6.0`","depth":"midnight","depthScore":50,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":50.1,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[{"seq":209289,"id":"CVE-2025-4993","ts":1790104185635,"field":"cvss","old":"8.3","new":"9.1"},{"seq":209288,"id":"CVE-2025-4993","ts":1790104185635,"field":"severity","old":"high","new":"critical"}]}