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CVE-2026-125224

6.8 mediumEPSS 0.2%

Medium (6.8) in ffmpeg ffmpeg. EPSS 0.2% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

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FFmpeg through 9.0.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability in libavcodec/vorbis_parser.c that re-parses invalid extradata for every packet when valid_extradata remains false. Attackers can supply crafted Ogg or Matroska Vorbis streams with large invalid extradata and many packets to exhaust CPU during demuxing or probing.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

6.8 medium
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.2% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; 6th percentile. Scored 2026-11-10. A forecast for this CVE across the internet, not for your own systems.
CISA's assessment (SSVC)
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial, assessed 2026-11-09. From CISA's Vulnrichment in the CVE List: whether it is exploited, whether exploiting it can be automated, and how much control it gives.
CWE
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
Assigned by
VulnCheck (CNA)
NVD analysis
Awaiting analysis
Record from
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Affected

Versions

From the CNA's record in the CVE List.

ProductAffected
FFmpegthrough 9.0.2

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

  • CAPEC-147 XML Ping of the Death Likelihood: Low · Severity: Medium
  • CAPEC-227 Sustained Client Engagement
  • CAPEC-492 Regular Expression Exponential Blowup

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