CVE-2026-54559

PocketSphinx is a small speech recognizer. Prior to 5.1.1, the trie language-model loaders in src/lm/ngram_model_trie.c do not adequately validate boundary conditions in ARPA, DMP, and binary format headers, and the acoustic-model loaders in src/mdef.c and src/util/bio.c use sscanf with unbounded string fields. Loading an invalid, corrupted, or malicious language or acoustic model can therefore cause stack or heap buffer overflows and memory corruption. An attacker who can write to a directory selected by POCKETSPHINX_PATH can replace or add a model file that PocketSphinx later loads; users of PocketSphinx 5prealpha have no backported patch and must migrate to the fixed release. This issue is fixed in version 5.1.1.

CVSS 4.0

6.9CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS

0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 45% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWEs

CWE-119, CWE-121, CWE-122

Published

2026-09-14

Modified

2026-09-30

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Packages (OSV)

References

• https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx/commit/2a3c03788a9973eff548664334fb781e9f4ad4a5
• https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx/releases/tag/v5.1.1
• https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx/security/advisories/GHSA-56r5-2p2f-7cxp

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