[UPDATE] [high] GStreamer: Vulnerability allows Denial of Service

CSIRTS triage

What

A remote, anonymous attacker can exploit a vulnerability in GStreamer to carry out a denial of service attack.

Who is affected

Remote deployments of GStreamer are affected.

Urgency

Remediation is high urgency due to the high severity and potential for exploitation.

Action

Update to the latest version of GStreamer.

AI-assisted analysis generated from the source advisory — verify against the original.

Details

Source

CERT-Bund (BSI) Security Advisories (DE · national-cert · site)

Severity

high

Published

2026-07-10

Exploitation

Not in CISA KEV at last sync

Language

Machine-translated to English — verify against the original

Original advisory: https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvisory?name=WID-SEC-2025-0885

Exploitation outlook

EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.

• Low exploitation riskCVE-2025-38870.73% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 50% of all scored CVEs.

Referenced CVEs

Recent advisories for GStreamer

A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.

• high[UPDATE] [high] GStreamer: Multiple vulnerabilitiescert-bund · 2026-07-10
• medium[NEW] [medium] GStreamer: Multiple vulnerabilitiescert-bund · 2026-07-10
• medium[UPDATE] [medium] GStreamer: Multiple vulnerabilities allow denial of servicecert-bund · 2026-07-10
• medium[UPDATE] [medium] GStreamer: Multiple vulnerabilitiescert-bund · 2026-07-10
• highCVE-2026-59692: A stack buffer overflow vulnerability was found in GStreamer's DTLS plugin. During a DTLS hand…nvd · 2026-07-09
• highCVE-2026-59691: A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was found in GStreamer's rfbsrc plugin. When a client con…nvd · 2026-07-09

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