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CVE-2026-54559 (GCVE-0-2026-54559)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-14 20:07 – Updated: 2026-09-15 19:30

Title

PocketSphinx: Buffer overflows in language and acoustic model loading code

Summary

PocketSphinx is a small speech recognizer. Prior to 5.1.1, the trie language-model loaders in src/lm/ngram_model_trie.c do not adequately validate boundary conditions in ARPA, DMP, and binary format headers, and the acoustic-model loaders in src/mdef.c and src/util/bio.c use sscanf with unbounded string fields. Loading an invalid, corrupted, or malicious language or acoustic model can therefore cause stack or heap buffer overflows and memory corruption. An attacker who can write to a directory selected by POCKETSPHINX_PATH can replace or add a model file that PocketSphinx later loads; users of PocketSphinx 5prealpha have no backported patch and must migrate to the fixed release. This issue is fixed in version 5.1.1.

Severity

6.9 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-09-15 19:30 UTC

CWE

CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow
CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx/securit…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx/commit/…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx/release…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
cmusphinx	pocketsphinx	Affected: < 5.1.1	guessed

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FKIE_CVE-2026-54559

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-14 20:16 - Updated: 2026-09-15 20:17

Severity

6.9 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx/commit/2a3c03788a9973eff548664334fb781e9f4ad4a5
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx/releases/tag/v5.1.1
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx/security/advisories/GHSA-56r5-2p2f-7cxp

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-56R5-2P2F-7CXP

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-17 21:19 – Updated: 2026-07-17 21:19

Summary

PocketSphinx: Buffer overflows in language and acoustic model loading code

Details

Impact

The trie language model code introduced in PocketSphinx 5prealpha failed to check various boundary conditions when reading the headers of ARPA, DMP, and binary format language model files. In the case of invalid, corrupted or malicious input files, this could lead to stack and heap buffer overflows.

In addition, the acoustic model loading code (which is over 30 years old...) contains numerous instances of sscanf with an unbounded string field which could also lead to stack overflows in the case of corrupt or malicious inputs.

Because PocketSphinx will search the directory given by the POCKETSPHINX_PATH environment variable for acoustic and language model files, if this directory is writable by untrusted users, an attacker could corrupt an existing file or write a malicious one to this directory in order to trigger the vulnerability.

Patches

The problem has been corrected in PocketSphinx 5.1.1.

There is no patch currently available for users of Pocketsphinx 5prealpha, who are encouraged to migrate as soon as possible to PocketSphinx 5.1.1.

Workarounds

Ensure that the POCKETSPHINX_PATH environment variable is either unset, or set to a directory whose contents are trusted and which cannot be written by untrusted users.

Severity

6.9 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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      },
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    "CVE-2026-54559"
  ],
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      "CWE-122"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-07-17T21:19:17Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
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  },
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  "id": "GHSA-56r5-2p2f-7cxp",
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  "published": "2026-07-17T21:19:17Z",
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      "type": "WEB",
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      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "PocketSphinx: Buffer overflows in language and acoustic model loading code"
}

PYSEC-2026-3498

Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2026-07-23 11:41 - Updated: 2026-07-23 14:32

Details

Impact

Patches

The problem has been corrected in PocketSphinx 5.1.1.

There is no patch currently available for users of Pocketsphinx 5prealpha, who are encouraged to migrate as soon as possible to PocketSphinx 5.1.1.

Workarounds

Ensure that the POCKETSPHINX_PATH environment variable is either unset, or set to a directory whose contents are trusted and which cannot be written by untrusted users.

Severity

6.9 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Impacted products

Name	purl
pocketsphinx	pkg:pypi/pocketsphinx

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        "name": "pocketsphinx",
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        "5.0.1",
        "5.0.2",
        "5.0.3",
        "5.0.4",
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      ]
    }
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    "GHSA-56r5-2p2f-7cxp"
  ],
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  "id": "PYSEC-2026-3498",
  "modified": "2026-07-23T14:32:26.189016Z",
  "published": "2026-07-23T11:41:47.547360Z",
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
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    },
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      "type": "PACKAGE",
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    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
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}

ubuntu-cve-2026-54559

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2026-09-14 20:16

Modified

2026-09-14 20:16

Summary

Details

Severity

6.9 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-54559	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-54559	REPORT
	https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx/commit/…	REPORT
	https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx/release…	REPORT
	https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx/securit…	REPORT

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Action not permitted

CVE-2026-54559 (GCVE-0-2026-54559)

FKIE_CVE-2026-54559

GHSA-56R5-2P2F-7CXP

Impact

Patches

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PYSEC-2026-3498

Impact

Patches

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ubuntu-cve-2026-54559

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

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