CVE-2026-8086: osgeo gdal

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-8086 is a high (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in osgeo gdal. EPSS estimates a 0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 17.4% of scored vulnerabilities. 3 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 07-05-2026
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-05-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability was identified in OSGeo gdal up to 3.13.0dev-4. This issue affects the function SWnentries of the file frmts/hdf4/hdf-eos/SWapi.c. Such manipulation of the argument DimensionName leads to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack must be carried out locally. The exploit is publicly available and might be used. Upgrading to version 3.12.4RC1 is capable of addressing this issue. The name of the patch is 9491e794f1757f08063ea2f7a274ad2994afa636. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
• CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowA heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().