CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2026-8124 — A security vulnerability has been detected in GPAC up to 26.02.0

Medium CVSS 5.5

A security vulnerability has been detected in GPAC up to 26.02.0. This affects the function sidx_box_read of the file src/isomedia/box_code_base.c. The manipulation leads to allocation of resources. The attack must be carried out locally. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. The identifier of the patch is 442e2299530138d8f874fd885c565ba98a6318ba. It is suggested to install a patch to address this issue.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.1)
Published
2026-05-08
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-770

Affected products

  • gpac / gpac

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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