CVE-2026-102566 (GCVE-0-2026-102566)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-29 14:22
Modified
2026-09-29 14:49
Severity ?
8.5 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Summary
CTranslate2 before 4.8.1 contains a heap-based buffer overflow in the binary model loader that fails to validate payload length against allocated buffer size. Attackers can craft malicious model files with oversized payload lengths to write past heap allocation boundaries, causing crashes or arbitrary code execution.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
OpenNMT CTranslate2 Version: 0   ≤
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