{"cve":"CVE-2019-9718","nvd":{"published":"2019-03-12T09:29:00.530","modified":"2026-06-17T02:44:13.640","status":"Modified","description":"In FFmpeg 3.2 and 4.1, a denial of service in the subtitle decoder allows attackers to hog the CPU via a crafted video file in Matroska format, because ff_htmlmarkup_to_ass in libavcodec/htmlsubtitles.c has a complex format argument to sscanf.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":6.5},"cwes":["CWE-125"],"references":["http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107382","https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/1f00c97bc3475c477f3c468cf2d924d5761d0982","https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/23ccf3cabb4baf6e8af4b1af3fcc59c904736f21","https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/60","https://usn.ubuntu.com/3967-1/"],"products":["canonical:ubuntu_linux","debian:debian_linux","ffmpeg:ffmpeg"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:55:22.313337056+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2019-9718","score":0.01565,"percentile":0.75295,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}