CVE record · CVE-2026-5674

Pipewire: pipewire: sandbox escape and arbitrary code execution via malicious library loading

CVSS 8.8 HighEPSS 0.0019 · 8th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 16 Jul 2026, 13:26 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Not given Not given Package name: pipewire https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire
  • affected 1.6.8 and earlier semver
Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: pipewire https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 0:1.4.11-1.el10_2 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support Package name: pipewire https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 0:1.2.7-1.el10_0.1 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: pipewire https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 0:1.4.11-1.el9_8 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions Package name: pipewire https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 0:0.3.47-4.el9_2.1 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions Package name: pipewire https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 0:1.0.1-1.el9_4.1 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support Package name: pipewire https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 0:1.0.1-1.el9_6.1 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: firefox https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: libkrun https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: firefox https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: firefox https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: pipewire https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: pipewire0.2 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: firefox https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-5674
CNA
redhat
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-427
Published
16 Jul 2026
Updated
4 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.8 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (redhat)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0019, the 8th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 16 Jul 2026, 13:26 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
  2. 16 Jul 2026, 14:16 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

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