What is CVE-2022-41845?

CVE-2022-41845 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Axiosys Bento4, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-09-30.

How severe is CVE-2022-41845?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Axiosys Bento4

CVE-2022-41845

An issue was discovered in Bento4 1.6.0-639. There ie excessive memory consumption in the function AP4_Array<AP4_ElstEntry>::EnsureCapacity in Core/Ap4Array.h.

Published 2022-09-30 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (26.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 27th percentile — 26.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.004 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Axiosys Bento4 — versions 1.6.0-639

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4/issues/770 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4/issues/747 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-41845?: CVE-2022-41845 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Axiosys Bento4, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-09-30.
How severe is CVE-2022-41845?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.