What is CVE-2018-1999014?

CVE-2018-1999014 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ffmpeg, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-07-23.

How severe is CVE-2018-1999014?

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

Out-of-bounds Read in Ffmpeg

CVE-2018-1999014

FFmpeg before commit bab0716c7f4793ec42e05a5aa7e80d82a0dd4e75 contains an out of array access vulnerability in MXF format demuxer that can result in DoS. This attack appear to be exploitable via specially crafted MXF file which has to be provided as input. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in bab0716c7f4793ec42e05a5aa7e80d82a0dd4e75 and later.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.015 (71.1th 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
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-1999014?: CVE-2018-1999014 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ffmpeg, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-07-23.
How severe is CVE-2018-1999014?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.