A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in ggml-org whisper.cpp up to 1.8.2. Affected is the function read_audio_data of the file /whisper.cpp/examples/common-whisper.cpp. The manipulation results in use after free.

This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2025-14569. The attack requires a local approach. Moreover, an exploit is present.

The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.