A vulnerability has been found in ggml-org whisper.cpp 1.8.4-58. This impacts the function log_mel_spectrogram of the file src/whisper.cpp. The manipulation leads to out-of-bounds read. The attack needs to be performed locally. The pull request to fix this issue awaits acceptance.
CVE-2026-17512
Score 3.3 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: LOW) published 2026-07-27. a secondary CVSS source baseline 3.3; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 3.3
- EG Score
- 3.3(medium)
- EG Risk
- 19(Track)EG Risk 19/100SSVC: Track
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 computedSeverity33% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 2%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 27, 2026
Last Modified
July 27, 2026
References (7)
- cna@vuldbhttps://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/
- cna@vuldbhttps://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/issues/3923
- cna@vuldbhttps://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/pull/3925
- cna@vuldbhttps://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-17512
- cna@vuldbhttps://vuldb.com/submit/798905
- cna@vuldbhttps://vuldb.com/vuln/383382
- cna@vuldbhttps://vuldb.com/vuln/383382/cti
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-17512(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| whisper.cpp | 1.7.6+dfsg-1 ... 1.9.1+dfsg1-1 (14 versions) | — | — |
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 43× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. 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. Most recent first.
- 2026-08-28 21:41 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-27 21:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-27 21:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-27 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-26 14:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-25 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-24 21:48 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-24 21:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-23 00:19 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-22 02:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-22 02:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-20 22:55 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-19 07:16 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 07:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-18 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-16 11:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-16 11:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 02:14 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-13 16:43 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-13 16:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-12 13:50 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-08-11 13:42 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-11 00:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-10 21:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-10 21:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-09 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-08 16:37 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-08 01:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-08 01:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-06 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-05 19:17 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-05 06:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-05 06:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-04 15:10 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-03 10:35 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-02 11:13 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-02 11:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-02 02:26 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-01 04:15 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-30 15:57 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-30 15:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-27 20:42 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-27 20:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-27 13:24 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-27 13:23 UTCNVD updateCVSS v4 → 1.9
- 2026-07-27 12:37 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-27 12:37 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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