CVE-2025-14569 | THREATINT

Description

A vulnerability was detected in ggml-org whisper.cpp up to 1.8.2. Affected is the function read_audio_data of the file /whisper.cpp/examples/common-whisper.cpp. The manipulation results in use after free. The attack requires a local approach. The exploit is now public and may be used. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-12 | Published 2025-12-12 | Updated 2025-12-12 | Assigner VulDB

MEDIUM: 4.8CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

MEDIUM: 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R

MEDIUM: 5.3CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R

4.3AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:POC/RL:ND/RC:UR

Problem types

Use After Free

Memory Corruption

Product status

1.8.0

affected

1.8.1

affected

1.8.2

affected

Timeline

2025-12-12:	Advisory disclosed
2025-12-12:	VulDB entry created
2025-12-12:	VulDB entry last update

Credits

repro finder

Oneafter (VulDB User) reporter

References

vuldb.com/?id.336193 (VDB-336193 | ggml-org whisper.cpp common-whisper.cpp read_audio_data use after free) vdb-entry technical-description

vuldb.com/?ctiid.336193 (VDB-336193 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA)) signature permissions-required

vuldb.com/?submit.703886 (Submit #703886 | ggerganov whisper.cpp v1.8.2 Free of Memory not on the Heap) third-party-advisory

github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/issues/3501 issue-tracking

github.com/oneafter/InvalidFree/blob/main/repro exploit

cve.org (CVE-2025-14569)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-14569)

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