What is CVE-2018-13304?

CVE-2018-13304 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ffmpeg, classified under Reachable Assertion. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-07-05.

How severe is CVE-2018-13304?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2018-13304 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Ffmpeg

CVE-2018-13304

In libavcodec in FFmpeg 4.0.1, improper maintenance of the consistency between the context profile field and studio_profile in libavcodec may trigger an assertion failure while converting a crafted AVI file to MPEG4, leading to a denial of service, related to error_resilience.c, h263dec.c, and mpeg4videodec.c.

EPSS: 0.011 (63.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Ffmpeg — versions 4.0.1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-617 — Reachable Assertion

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-13304?: CVE-2018-13304 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ffmpeg, classified under Reachable Assertion. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-07-05.
How severe is CVE-2018-13304?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-13304 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.