CVE-2026-5236: Axiomatic BENTO4

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability was identified in Axiomatic Bento4 up to 1.6.0-641. Affected is the function AP4_BitReader::SkipBits of the file Ap4Dac4Atom.cpp of the component DSI v1 Parser. Such manipulation of the argument n_presentations leads to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack needs to be performed locally. The exploit is publicly available and might be used. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.

Affected products

• Axiomatic BENTO4: version 1.6.0-641 only

Published 2026-03-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.