CVE-2025-15535

low

Published 2026-01-18 · Modified 2026-04-29

CVSS v3

3.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS v2

1.7

VIR risk

3.3

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

34%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

References

https://github.com/nicbarker/clay/
https://github.com/nicbarker/clay/issues/566
https://github.com/oneafter/1215/blob/main/repro
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.341707
https://vuldb.com/?id.341707
https://vuldb.com/?submit.733346

CWEs

CWE-404 CWE-476

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.