CVE-2026-123269

Description

A vulnerability was detected in libyal libvmdk. Affected by this vulnerability is the function libvmdk_descriptor_file_read_header of the file libvmdk/libvmdk_descriptor_file.c of the component Descriptor File Parser. The manipulation results in out-of-bounds read. The attack must be initiated from a local position. The exploit is now public and may be used. The patch is identified as 175d3fc0a0b961f362f16e7560a6169d7213e16b. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.

References

https://vuldb.com/vuln/431575/cti

https://vuldb.com/vuln/431575

https://vuldb.com/submit/1032842

https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-123269

https://github.com/user-attachments/files/33394231/03_integer_underflow_poc.zip

https://github.com/libyal/libvmdk/issues/41

https://github.com/libyal/libvmdk/commit/175d3fc0a0b961f362f16e7560a6169d7213e16b

https://github.com/libyal/libvmdk/

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-117882

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

CVSS v4

EPSS