CVE-2026-4738 is a critical Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability (CWE-119) affecting OSGeo GDAL versions prior to 3.11.0, specifically in its zlib modules. This vulnerability carries a CVSSv4 score of 9.4 CRITICAL, indicating it can be exploited remotely over the network with low attack complexity, though it requires user interaction. Successful exploitation could lead to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, including complete system compromise. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 0, < 3.11.0CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:osgeo:gdal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:A/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:P/AU:Y/R:U/V:C/RE:L/U:Amber
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.8 Bluesky, 0.5 Mastodon, and 1.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.