CVE-2026-18297

HIGHPre-NVD 7.87.8—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-20. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
7.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

GStreamer OGG File Parsing Stack-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of GStreamer. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.

The specific flaw exists within the parsing of OGG files. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a stack-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-29584.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
35
EG Risk 35/100CISA SSVC

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
Severity78% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
13th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

August 20, 2026

Last Modified

September 2, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Aug 20, 2026
Patch available.
generic

GStreamer Security Advisory

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2026-0053.html
generic

ZDI-26-465 - TrendAI™ Zero Day Initiative™ (ZDI)

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-26-465/

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-18297(10)

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

Patch Availability(12)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulibgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev (1.8.3-1ubuntu0.3+esm5) @ xenial2026-10-05ubuntu
redhatgstreamer1-plugins-base-0:1.16.1-4.el8_6.12026-09-22redhat
redhatgstreamer1-plugins-base-0:1.10.4-4.el7_9.12026-09-22redhat
redhatgstreamer1-plugins-base-0:1.22.12-8.el9_8.22026-09-21redhat
redhatgstreamer1-plugins-base-0:1.16.1-4.el8_4.12026-09-21redhat
redhatgstreamer1-plugins-base-0:1.24.11-1.el10_0.22026-09-17redhat
redhatgstreamer1-plugins-base-0:1.16.1-4.el8_8.12026-09-17redhat
redhatgstreamer1-plugins-base-0:1.18.4-8.el9_2.12026-09-16redhat
redhatgstreamer1-plugins-base-0:1.22.1-4.el9_4.12026-09-16redhat
redhatgstreamer1-plugins-base-0:1.22.12-5.el9_6.12026-09-16redhat
redhatgstreamer1-plugins-base-0:1.16.1-6.el8_10.12026-08-25redhat
redhatgstreamer1-plugins-base-0:1.26.7-2.el10_2.12026-08-24redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(3 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
gst-plugins-base1.01.22.0-3 ... 1.29.2-1 (86 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
gst-plugins-base1.01.26.2-1, 1.26.2-1+deb13u1
  • every version up to 1.26.2-1+deb13u2: fixed in 1.26.2-1+deb13u2
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
gst-plugins-base1.01.26.10-1 ... 1.28.4-1 (25 versions)
  • every version up to 1.28.5-1: fixed in 1.28.5-1
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Weakness Classification(1)

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

Additional Vendor Advisories

(3)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 35× in last 7d / 154× 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.

Showing the most recent 100 of 242 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-10-05 09:30 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-05 09:30 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-05 09:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-04 23:21 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-10-04 20:52 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-04 20:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-10-04 05:05 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-04 05:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-10-03 16:47 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-03 16:47 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-03 16:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-10-02 21:35 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-02 21:35 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-02 21:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-10-02 09:26 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-02 09:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-10-01 21:29 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-01 21:29 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-01 21:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-10-01 08:29 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-01 08:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-09-30 20:31 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-30 20:31 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-09-30 20:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-09-30 15:02 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-09-30 08:15 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-09-30 08:15 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-09-30 08:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-09-29 15:20 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-09-28 21:38 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-09-28 21:38 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-09-28 21:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-09-28 13:51 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-09-28 03:56 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-09-28 03:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-09-27 15:58 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-09-27 15:58 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-09-27 15:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-09-27 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-09-27 03:05 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-09-27 03:05 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-09-27 03:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-09-26 15:58 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-09-25 08:01 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-09-25 08:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-09-24 20:04 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-24 20:04 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-09-24 20:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-09-24 08:02 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-09-24 08:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  28. 2026-09-23 20:05 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-09-23 20:05 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-09-23 20:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  31. 2026-09-23 07:43 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-09-23 07:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  33. 2026-09-22 19:45 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-09-22 19:45 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-09-22 19:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  36. 2026-09-22 05:53 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-09-22 05:53 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-09-22 05:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  39. 2026-09-21 17:54 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-09-21 17:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  41. 2026-09-21 05:48 UTCEG score recompute
  42. 2026-09-21 05:48 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-09-21 05:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  44. 2026-09-20 16:29 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-09-20 16:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  46. 2026-09-20 04:27 UTCEG score recompute
  47. 2026-09-20 04:27 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-09-20 04:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  49. 2026-09-19 16:30 UTCEG score recompute
  50. 2026-09-19 16:30 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-09-19 16:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  52. 2026-09-19 04:32 UTCEG score recompute
  53. 2026-09-19 04:32 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-09-19 04:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  55. 2026-09-18 19:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  56. 2026-09-18 16:33 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-09-18 16:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  58. 2026-09-18 03:34 UTCEG score recompute
  59. 2026-09-18 03:34 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-09-18 03:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  61. 2026-09-17 15:37 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-09-17 15:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  63. 2026-09-17 03:28 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-09-17 03:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  65. 2026-09-16 14:29 UTCEG score recompute
  66. 2026-09-16 14:29 UTCVendor advisory
  67. 2026-09-16 14:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  68. 2026-09-16 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  69. 2026-09-16 05:14 UTCEPSS rescore
  70. 2026-09-16 01:52 UTCVendor advisory
  71. 2026-09-16 01:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  72. 2026-09-15 13:55 UTCEG score recompute
  73. 2026-09-15 13:55 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-09-15 13:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  75. 2026-09-15 01:58 UTCVendor advisory

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-18297?
CVE-2026-18297 is a high vulnerability published on August 20, 2026. GStreamer OGG File Parsing Stack-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of GStreamer. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a…
When was CVE-2026-18297 disclosed?
CVE-2026-18297 was first published on August 20, 2026, with the most recent update on September 2, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-18297 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-18297 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (13th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-18297?
CVE-2026-18297 has a CVSS base score of 7.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-18297?
A fix for CVE-2026-18297 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-18297 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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