Access Control Bypass Affecting gstreamer package, versions [1.18.0,1.28.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-GSTREAMER-14897560
  • published8 Jan 2026
  • disclosed22 Oct 2024
  • creditQingpeng Du

Introduced: 22 Oct 2024

CVE-2024-44331  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gstreamer to version 1.28.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Control Bypass through the gst_rtsp_media_get_rates function inrtsp-media.c file. An attacker can disrupt service operations by sending a sequence of specially crafted hexstream requests.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1