What is CVE-2024-55069?

CVE-2024-55069 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ffmpeg, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-05-02.

How severe is CVE-2024-55069?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

NULL pointer dereference in Ffmpeg

CVE-2024-55069

ffmpeg 7.1 is vulnerable to Null Pointer Dereference in function iamf_read_header in /libavformat/iamfdec.c.

Published 2025-05-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (20.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 21st percentile — 20.7% 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: 0.003 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Ffmpeg — versions 7.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/11326 (Exploit, Issue Tracking)
git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/4cc1495aca45445181a107a682c32cfe31459929 (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-55069?: CVE-2024-55069 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ffmpeg, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-05-02.
How severe is CVE-2024-55069?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.