GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-wphc-7cm7-8mf7 GDAL: scanForGeometryContainers in the netCDF driver allows code execution via a stack-based buffer overflow
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-49014
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- gdal
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-121
- Reviewed
- 2026-07-01
Affected packages
• PyPI gdal: >= 3.1.0, < 3.13.1 → fixed in 3.13.1
Description
In GDAL 3.1.0 through 3.13.0, scanForGeometryContainers in the netCDF driver allows code execution via a stack-based buffer overflow. It reads a geometry attribute into a fixed-size stack buffer without validating the attribute length. The attacker embeds the exploit as an oversized geometry attribute in a crafted NetCDF file. This achieves arbitrary code execution on the server running GDAL. This is in frmts/netcdf/netcdfsg.cpp.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-49014 In GDAL 3.1.0 through 3.13.0, scanForGeometryContainers in the netCDF driver allows code execution via a stack-based buffer overflow. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-49014 advisory
- https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/14594 web
- https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/14598 web
- https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/commit/f5ebabc1042f3c59b24e7c8ad45dda242d127f09 web
- https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal package
- https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.13.1/NEWS.md web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/gdal/PYSEC-2026-193.yaml web