What is CVE-2020-22042?

CVE-2020-22042 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ffmpeg, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-06-01.

How severe is CVE-2020-22042?

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

Vulnerability in Ffmpeg

CVE-2020-22042

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in FFmpeg 4.2 due to a memory leak is affected by: memory leak in the link_filter_inouts function in libavfilter/graphparser.c.

EPSS: 0.009 (56.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Ffmpeg — versions 4.2
Debian Debian_linux — versions 11.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-22042?: CVE-2020-22042 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ffmpeg, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-06-01.
How severe is CVE-2020-22042?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.