CVE-2026-18649

HIGHPre-NVD 7.57.5—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-06. a secondary CVSS source baseline 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — Patch released this weekElevated
7.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 1%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: Elevated riskExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in the GStreamer gst-plugins-good package. The rtph264depay and rtph265depay RTP depayloader elements do not enforce a maximum size limit on the reassembly buffer used during fragmented RTP packet processing. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can send a continuous stream of RTP fragments without ever transmitting an end-of-fragment marker, causing the reassembly buffer to grow without bound until process memory is exhausted. This results in a denial of service through process termination.

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
7.5(high)
EG Risk
65(Track)
EG Risk 65/100SSVC: 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 computed
Severity75% × 45%
Exploitation40% × 40%
Automatability100% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
1%
EPSS %ILE
47%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 6, 2026

Last Modified

August 19, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Aug 6, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
generic

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https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer-security/-/merge_requests/113
redhat

2510614 – (CVE-2026-18649) CVE-2026-18649 gst-plugins-good: gst-plugins-good: unbounded memory growth in rtph264depay and rtph265depay RTP depayloaders

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2510614
redhat Patch Available

CVE-2026-18649 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18649

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-18649(4)

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

Patch Availability(3)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
redhatgstreamer1-plugins-good-0:1.16.1-7.el8_10.32026-08-19redhat
redhatgstreamer1-plugins-good-0:1.26.7-2.el10_2.32026-08-11redhat
redhatgstreamer1-plugins-good-0:1.22.12-7.el9_8.22026-08-11redhat

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.

Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 49× in last 7d / 98× 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.

  1. 2026-08-21 06:21 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-08-21 06:21 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-08-21 06:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-08-20 22:55 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-08-20 19:21 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-08-20 19:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-08-20 08:21 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-08-20 08:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-08-19 21:21 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-08-19 21:21 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-08-19 21:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-08-19 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-08-19 11:32 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-08-19 11:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-08-19 00:29 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-08-19 00:29 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-08-19 00:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-08-18 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  19. 2026-08-18 13:25 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-08-18 13:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-08-18 02:24 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-08-18 02:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-08-17 15:21 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-08-17 15:21 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-08-17 15:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-08-17 14:44 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-08-17 14:44 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-08-17 14:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-08-17 09:17 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-08-17 09:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-08-16 22:18 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-08-16 22:18 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-08-16 22:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-08-16 11:18 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-08-16 11:18 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-08-16 11:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-08-16 02:14 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-08-16 00:19 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-08-16 00:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-08-15 13:19 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-08-15 13:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-08-15 02:18 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-08-15 02:18 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-08-15 02:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-08-14 15:19 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-08-14 15:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-08-14 04:20 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-08-14 04:20 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-08-14 04:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  28. 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  29. 2026-08-13 17:20 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-08-13 17:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  31. 2026-08-13 06:19 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-08-13 06:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  33. 2026-08-12 19:20 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-08-12 19:20 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-08-12 19:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  36. 2026-08-12 13:50 UTCEPSS rescore
  37. 2026-08-12 08:20 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-08-12 08:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  39. 2026-08-11 21:19 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-08-11 21:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  41. 2026-08-11 20:46 UTCEG score recompute
  42. 2026-08-11 20:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  43. 2026-08-11 16:34 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-08-11 16:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  45. 2026-08-11 15:41 UTCEG score recompute
  46. 2026-08-11 15:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  47. 2026-08-11 13:42 UTCEPSS rescore
  48. 2026-08-11 05:44 UTCEG score recompute
  49. 2026-08-11 05:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
  50. 2026-08-11 00:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  51. 2026-08-10 18:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  52. 2026-08-10 07:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  53. 2026-08-09 20:46 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-08-09 20:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  55. 2026-08-09 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  56. 2026-08-09 09:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  57. 2026-08-08 22:47 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-08-08 22:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  59. 2026-08-08 16:37 UTCEPSS rescore
  60. 2026-08-08 11:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  61. 2026-08-08 00:48 UTCEG score recompute
  62. 2026-08-08 00:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  63. 2026-08-07 13:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  64. 2026-08-07 02:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  65. 2026-08-06 15:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  66. 2026-08-06 14:17 UTCEG score recompute
  67. 2026-08-06 14:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  68. 2026-08-06 13:53 UTCEG score recompute
  69. 2026-08-06 13:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  70. 2026-08-06 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  71. 2026-08-06 08:22 UTCEG score recompute
  72. 2026-08-06 07:25 UTCEG score recompute
  73. 2026-08-06 07:25 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (1 GitHub PoC). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

  • GitHub PoC0xSemizzz/CVE-2026-18649
    First seen Aug 6, 2026

    Proof of concept for CVE-2026-18649, a remote denial of service vulnerability in GStreamer's H.264 RTP depayloader (rtph264depay).

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-18649?
CVE-2026-18649 is a high vulnerability published on August 6, 2026. A flaw was found in the GStreamer gst-plugins-good package. The rtph264depay and rtph265depay RTP depayloader elements do not enforce a maximum size limit on the reassembly buffer used during fragmented RTP packet processing. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can send a continuous stream of RTP…
When was CVE-2026-18649 disclosed?
CVE-2026-18649 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 6, 2026, with the most recent update on August 19, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-18649 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-18649 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 53.2% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-18649?
CVE-2026-18649 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-18649?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-18649, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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