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CVE-2018-1999013· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

FFmpeg before commit a7e032a277452366771951e29fd0bf2bd5c029f0 contains a use-after-free vulnerability in the realmedia demuxer that can resu

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 27/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1.7% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 77.3% of all records.
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. A user must open a link or visit a page. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: ffmpeg (Debian:12) 7:4.0.2-1; ffmpeg (Debian:9) 7:3.2.11-1~deb9u1; ffmpeg (SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15) 3.4.2-4.5.1.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to ffmpeg (Debian:12) 7:4.0.2-1; ffmpeg (Debian:9) 7:3.2.11-1~deb9u1; ffmpeg (SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15) 3.4.2-4.5.1 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

FFmpeg before commit a7e032a277452366771951e29fd0bf2bd5c029f0 contains a use-after-free vulnerability in the realmedia demuxer that can result in vulnerability allows attacker to read heap memory. This attack appear to be exploitable via specially crafted RM file has to be provided as input. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in a7e032a277452366771951e29fd0bf2bd5c029f0 and later.

MediumCVSS 6.5 · v3.0—No exploit Fix available
Published
Jul 23, 2018
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
1.7% · 77th percentile

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Action score

27

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
26 / 40 · 6.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
1 / 30 · 1.7%

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Affected systems

Is your version affected?

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VendorProduct
ffmpegffmpeg

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • ffmpeg ffmpegup to 4.0.1 inclusive

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:12ffmpegbefore 7:4.0.2-17:4.0.2-1
Debian:9ffmpegbefore 7:3.2.11-1~deb9u17:3.2.11-1~deb9u1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15ffmpegbefore 3.4.2-4.5.13.4.2-4.5.1

Same product

ffmpeg: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2009-4637FFmpeg 0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors that trigger
    45Plan
  • CVE-2016-10190Heap-based buffer overflow in libavformat/http.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.5, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 all
    42Plan
  • CVE-2009-4634Multiple integer underflows in FFmpeg 0.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a craf
    42Plan

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2018-1999011Jul 23, 2018 · FFmpeg before commit 2b46ebdbff1d8dec7a3d8ea280a612b91a582869 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in asf_o format demuxer that can resu
    36Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2018-1999012Jul 23, 2018 · FFmpeg before commit 9807d3976be0e92e4ece3b4b1701be894cd7c2e1 contains a CWE-835: Infinite loop vulnerability in pva format demuxer that can
    27Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2018-1999014Jul 23, 2018 · FFmpeg before commit bab0716c7f4793ec42e05a5aa7e80d82a0dd4e75 contains an out of array access vulnerability in MXF format demuxer that can r
    26Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
debian:ffmpeg7:4.0.2-1 · Debian:12Package registry (OSV)
suse:ffmpeg3.4.2-4.5.1 · SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • A user must open a link or visit a page.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
none
Availability
none
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-416 · Use After Free

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd-primary

Root cause

After a memory region is freed, another reference pointing to it is still used. By then, the same region may have been allocated for different data.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-416 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

c
free(dev->buf);/* ... another thread is still running ... */process(dev->buf);

Fixed

c
lock(&dev->lock);free(dev->buf);dev->buf = NULL;unlock(&dev->lock);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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