CVE-2026-16473

MEDIUMPre-NVD 4.34.3
EchelonGraph scoreLOW confidence

This medium-severity CVE scores 4.3 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).

Triggered by: NVD CVSS baseline
Sources: secondary
4.3
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: —CVSS: 4.3Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

A flaw was found in the sbc library (BlueZ SBC codec). An off-by-one error in the SBC frame decoder allows a crafted audio payload to trigger a one-byte heap out-of-bounds read. This could allow an adjacent attacker streaming Bluetooth audio to read a single byte of adjacent heap memory.

CVSS v3
4.3
EG Score
4.3(low)
EPSS
—
KEV
Not listed

Published

July 22, 2026

Last Modified

July 22, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Jul 22, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
generic

sbc.git - Bluetooth low-complexity, subband codec (SBC) library

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/sbc.git
redhat

2503650 – (CVE-2026-16473) CVE-2026-16473 sbc: sbc: heap out-of-bounds read via crafted SBC audio frame

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2503650
redhat Patch Available

cve-details

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-16473

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-16473(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 3× in last 7d / 3× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-07-22 11:38 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-07-22 10:52 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-07-22 10:52 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(4)

What is CVE-2026-16473?
CVE-2026-16473 is a medium vulnerability published on July 22, 2026. A flaw was found in the sbc library (BlueZ SBC codec). An off-by-one error in the SBC frame decoder allows a crafted audio payload to trigger a one-byte heap out-of-bounds read. This could allow an adjacent attacker streaming Bluetooth audio to read a single byte of adjacent heap memory.
When was CVE-2026-16473 disclosed?
CVE-2026-16473 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on July 22, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-16473?
CVE-2026-16473 has a CVSS v3 base score of 4.3 (NVD). The EG score is currently aggregating — additional source signals are being incorporated as they become available..
How do I remediate CVE-2026-16473?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-16473, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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