CVE-2026-8088: osgeo gdal

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-8088 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in osgeo gdal. EPSS estimates a 0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 3 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 07-05-2026
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 08-05-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A weakness has been identified in OSGeo gdal up to 3.13.0dev-4. The affected element is the function GDfieldinfo of the file frmts/hdf4/hdf-eos/GDapi.c. Executing a manipulation can lead to out-of-bounds read. The attack needs to be launched locally. The exploit has been made available to the public and could be used for attacks. Upgrading to version 3.13.0RC1 is sufficient to fix this issue. This patch is called a791f70f8eaec540974ec989ca6fb00266b7646c. The affected component should be upgraded.

• 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-125Out-of-bounds ReadThe product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.