Buffer Overflow in GDAL (CVE-2026-8087)
Summary
Vulnerability in GDAL (CVE-2026-8087). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 3.13.0 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
A security flaw has been discovered in OSGeo gdal up to 3.13.0dev-4. Impacted is the function GDnentries of the file frmts/hdf4/hdf-eos/GDapi.c. Performing a manipulation of the argument DataFieldName results in heap-based buffer overflow. The attack must be initiated from a local position. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. Upgrading to version 3.13.0RC1 is recommended to address this issue. The patch is named 184f77dbcc74118c062c05e464c88161d3c37b9b. You should upgrade the affected component.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-8087 has been found in GDAL.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10.
What to do: upgrade GDAL to 3.13.0 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "GDAL CVE-2026-8087" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-8087 (GDAL) — CWE-119 / CVSS v3 5.3
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 3.13.0 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-119) exists in GDAL.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of GDAL.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.3/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 3.13.0.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'GDAL' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'GDAL' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
GDALを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade GDAL to 3.13.0ステージング環境で 3.13.0 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-8087 gdal
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-8087 gdal
References
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