What is CVE-2018-1999015?

CVE-2018-1999015 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-2018-1999015?

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

Out-of-bounds Read in Ffmpeg

CVE-2018-1999015

FFmpeg before commit 5aba5b89d0b1d73164d3b81764828bb8b20ff32a contains an out of array read vulnerability in ASF_F format demuxer that can result in heap memory reading. This attack appear to be exploitable via specially crafted ASF file that has to provided as input. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 5aba5b89d0b1d73164d3b81764828bb8b20ff32a and later.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.018 (75.7th 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:H/I:N/A:N.

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-2018-1999015?: CVE-2018-1999015 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-2018-1999015?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.