Cyber Posture

CVE-2026-49014

High
Microsoft: not affectedMSmacOS: not affectedMacLinux: not affectedLnxMobile: not affectedMobNetwork: not affectedNetApplication: not affectedAppOther: affectedOth

Published: 27 May 2026

Published
27 May 2026
Modified
27 May 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0001 3.3th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2026-49014 is a high-severity Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.4 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 3.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) and 1 other technique.
Threat & Defense Details

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1204.002 Malicious File Execution
An adversary may rely upon a user opening a malicious file in order to gain execution.
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Why these techniques?

Stack buffer overflow in NetCDF file parser enables RCE via crafted malicious file, directly mapping to public-facing app exploitation and malicious file user execution.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

NVD Description

In GDAL 3.1.0 through 3.13.0, scanForGeometryContainers in the netCDF driver allows code execution via a stack-based buffer overflow. It reads a geometry attribute into a fixed-size stack buffer without validating the attribute length. The attacker embeds the exploit as an…

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oversized geometry attribute in a crafted NetCDF file. This achieves arbitrary code execution on the server running GDAL. This is in frmts/netcdf/netcdfsg.cpp.

Deeper analysisAI

Automated synthesis unavailable for this CVE.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-121

EU & UK References

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