Description
A flaw was found in the SRT and WebVTT subtitle parser in GStreamer's gst-plugins-base. While sanitizing inline subtitle markup, the parser repeatedly searches the remaining text with unanchored regular expressions. A crafted subtitle cue with a long line of unmatched markup-like text can force quadratic CPU use and make a GStreamer-based application unresponsive.
Published: 2026-11-09
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

Vendor Workaround

Update gst-plugins-base to version 1.28.2 or later. Where updating is not yet possible, applications that do not require untrusted SRT/WebVTT subtitles can prevent automatic selection of the subparse element (for example, by setting GST_PLUGIN_FEATURE_RANK=subparse:NONE).

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Mon, 09 Nov 2026 18:30:00 +0000

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Description A flaw was found in the SRT and WebVTT subtitle parser in GStreamer's gst-plugins-base. While sanitizing inline subtitle markup, the parser repeatedly searches the remaining text with unanchored regular expressions. A crafted subtitle cue with a long line of unmatched markup-like text can force quadratic CPU use and make a GStreamer-based application unresponsive.
Title Gst-plugins-base: gst-plugins-base: quadratic regex processing in srt/webvtt subtitle parser causes denial of service
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Redhat rhel Els
Weaknesses CWE-1333
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Redhat rhel Els
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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Redhat Enterprise Linux Rhel Els
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-09T18:41:32.861Z

Reserved: 2026-11-09T16:17:34.662Z

Link: CVE-2026-125040

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