CVE-2026-90781

MEDIUMPre-NVD 4.44.4
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 4.4 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-09-13. A secondary CVSS source baseline 4.4; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source

Also known asEUVD-2026-77008 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-f8w2-9vv9-pxwq (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

4.4EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 4.4Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

alsa-lib through 1.2.16.1 contains a stack buffer overflow in the __snd_ctl_ascii_elem_id_parse() function that writes one byte past a 64-byte buffer when parsing a name= field with 64 or more characters. Attackers can supply a long control-element identifier string through saved state files or command-line arguments to overwrite adjacent stack memory and crash the calling process.

CVSS v3
4.4
EG Score
4.4MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
20
EG Risk 20/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity44% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 4.4 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.2% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
7th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (4.4): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 4.4 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
4.4 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS. FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

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

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

September 13, 2026

Last Modified

September 24, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Sep 13, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_commit.
Web page

alsa-lib through 1.2.16.1 Off-by-One Stack Buffer Overflow in __snd_ctl_ascii_elem_id_parse() | Advisories | VulnCheck

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/alsa-lib-through-1.2.16.1-off-by-one-stack-buffer-overflow-in-snd-ctl-ascii-elem-id-parse
Web page

GitHub - alsa-project/alsa-lib: The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) - library · GitHub

https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib
Web page

Security: Missed-sibling stack buffer overflow in __snd_ctl_ascii_elem_id_parse() — name= field not fixed by PR #509 - Harsh Raj Singhania

https://lore.kernel.org/alsa-devel/CACBQ=P2FhO3M6dkv3cWuKb6Qhs92ouV+FJ3SJZ_PVBSSdJWRAQ@mail.gmail.com/
Web page

alsa-lib/src/control/ctlparse.c at v1.2.16.1 · alsa-project/alsa-lib · GitHub

https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/blob/v1.2.16.1/src/control/ctlparse.c#L216-L241
GitHub commit

commit f84cd4ced7b3 (alsa-project/alsa-lib)

Fix landed in alsa-project/alsa-lib commit f84cd4ced7b3 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/commit/f84cd4ced7b36fddb8e4ee24404cf7c091d27020

Patch Availability(2)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatalsa-lib-main-1.2.16.1-2.1.hum12026-09-14redhat
redhatalsa-lib-main-1.2.16.1-2.hum12026-07-16redhat

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
alsa-lib1.2.10-1 ... 1.2.9-2 (23 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
alsa-lib1.2.14-1 ... 1.2.16.1-2 (11 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
alsa-lib1.2.14-1 ... 1.2.16.1-1~bpo13+1 (9 versions)
  • every version up to 1.2.16.1-2: fixed in 1.2.16.1-2
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Weakness Classification(1)

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

Additional Vendor Advisories

(2)

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 7× in last 7d / 62× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. 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. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 134 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 35 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-03 16:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
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  8. 2026-10-27 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  9. 2026-10-27 11:55 UTCOSV refresh
  10. 2026-10-26 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  11. 2026-10-25 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  12. 2026-10-25 13:51 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-24 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
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  19. 2026-10-18 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  20. 2026-10-18 03:00 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-13 15:32 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-13 15:32 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-13 15:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f8w2-9vv9-pxwq · GitHub CVSS 4.4
  4. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  5. 2026-10-12 14:46 UTCEG score recompute
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  8. 2026-10-11 13:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  9. 2026-10-11 13:45 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-11 09:45 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-11 09:45 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-11 09:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f8w2-9vv9-pxwq · GitHub CVSS 4.4
  13. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  14. 2026-10-10 08:40 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-10 08:40 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-10 08:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f8w2-9vv9-pxwq · GitHub CVSS 4.4
  17. 2026-10-09 20:08 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  18. 2026-10-09 08:04 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-09 08:04 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-09 08:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f8w2-9vv9-pxwq · GitHub CVSS 4.4
  21. 2026-10-08 17:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  22. 2026-10-08 07:28 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-08 07:28 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-08 07:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f8w2-9vv9-pxwq · GitHub CVSS 4.4
  25. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  26. 2026-10-07 06:52 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-10-07 06:52 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-10-07 06:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f8w2-9vv9-pxwq · GitHub CVSS 4.4
  29. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  30. 2026-10-06 06:17 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-10-06 06:17 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-10-06 06:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f8w2-9vv9-pxwq · GitHub CVSS 4.4
  33. 2026-10-05 17:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  34. 2026-10-05 05:13 UTCEG score recompute
  35. 2026-10-05 05:13 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-10-05 05:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f8w2-9vv9-pxwq · GitHub CVSS 4.4
  37. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  38. 2026-10-04 04:37 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-10-04 04:37 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-10-04 04:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f8w2-9vv9-pxwq · GitHub CVSS 4.4
  41. 2026-10-03 04:02 UTCEG score recompute
  42. 2026-10-03 04:02 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-10-03 04:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f8w2-9vv9-pxwq · GitHub CVSS 4.4
  44. 2026-10-02 03:23 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-10-02 03:23 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-10-02 03:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f8w2-9vv9-pxwq · GitHub CVSS 4.4
  47. 2026-10-01 19:51 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  48. 2026-10-01 02:10 UTCEG score recompute
  49. 2026-10-01 02:10 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-10-01 02:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f8w2-9vv9-pxwq · GitHub CVSS 4.4
  51. 2026-09-30 15:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  52. 2026-09-30 01:35 UTCEG score recompute
  53. 2026-09-30 01:35 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-09-30 01:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f8w2-9vv9-pxwq · GitHub CVSS 4.4
  55. 2026-09-29 00:48 UTCEG score recompute
  56. 2026-09-29 00:48 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-09-29 00:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f8w2-9vv9-pxwq · GitHub CVSS 4.4
  58. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  59. 2026-09-28 00:10 UTCEG score recompute
  60. 2026-09-28 00:10 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-09-28 00:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f8w2-9vv9-pxwq · GitHub CVSS 4.4
  62. 2026-09-27 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  63. 2026-09-26 23:34 UTCEG score recompute
  64. 2026-09-26 23:34 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-09-26 23:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f8w2-9vv9-pxwq · GitHub CVSS 4.4
  66. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  67. 2026-09-25 22:41 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-09-25 22:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f8w2-9vv9-pxwq · GitHub CVSS 4.4
  69. 2026-09-24 20:56 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-09-24 20:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f8w2-9vv9-pxwq · GitHub CVSS 4.4
  71. 2026-09-24 20:11 UTCEG score recompute
  72. 2026-09-24 20:11 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-09-24 20:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f8w2-9vv9-pxwq · GitHub CVSS 4.4
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-90781?
CVE-2026-90781 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 13, 2026. alsa-lib through 1.2.16.1 contains a stack buffer overflow in the __snd_ctl_ascii_elem_id_parse() function that writes one byte past a 64-byte buffer when parsing a name= field with 64 or more characters. Attackers can supply a long control-element identifier string through saved state files or…
When was CVE-2026-90781 made public?
CVE-2026-90781 was made public on August 30, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, VulnCheck, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on September 13, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of September 24, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-90781 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-90781 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (7th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-90781?
CVE-2026-90781 has a CVSS base score of 4.4 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-90781?
A fix for CVE-2026-90781 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-90781 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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