A vulnerability was detected in ggml-org llama.cpp d006858/e15efe0. This affects the function _visit_pattern of the file common/json-schema-to-grammar.cpp. The manipulation results in null pointer dereference. The attack can be launched remotely. The pull request to fix this issue awaits acceptance.
CVE-2026-17500
This medium-severity CVE scores 5.3 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit-prediction score not yet available (the EPSS model rescores nightly; freshly-published CVEs typically appear within 48 hours). GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 5.3
- EG Score
- 5.3(low)
- EG Risk
- 28(Track)EG Risk 28/100SSVC: Track
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How it’s computedSeverity53% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
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- KEV
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Published
July 27, 2026
Last Modified
July 27, 2026
Advisory Details (3)
Auto-updated Jul 27, 2026GitHub - ggml-org/llama.cpp: LLM inference in C/C++ · GitHub
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/json-schema-to-grammar: harden _visit_pattern against malformed regex patterns
Upstream fix in progress (PR #25308 · ggml-org/llama.cpp, state=open)
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/25308NULL-pointer dereference in JSON-Schema regex/pattern handling during grammar construction · Issue #25284 · ggml-org/llama.cpp · GitHub
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/25284Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-17500(1)
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Weakness Classification(2)
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Data Freshness Timeline
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- 2026-07-27 01:23 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-27 01:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-27 01:02 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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