Answer in brief
CVE-2026-125040 records a Medium severity (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in Gst-plugins-base: gst-plugins-base: quadratic regex processing in srt/webvtt subtitle parser causes denial of service. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Red Hat/gstreamer1-plugins-base (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 6.5. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps Red Hat/gstreamer1-plugins-base (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat/gstreamer1-plugins-basegeneric | * | Not reported |
Published upstream
Nov 9, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Nov 9, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Nov 9, 2026
A flaw was found in the SRT and WebVTT subtitle parser in GStreamer's gst-plugins-base. While sanitizing inline subtitle markup, the parser repeatedly searches the remaining text with unanchored regular expressions. A crafted subtitle cue with a long line of unmatched markup-like text can force quadratic CPU use and make a GStreamer-based application unresponsive.
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