CVE-2026-90816

5.3 mediumEPSS 0.6%

Medium (5.3). EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability was found in FFmpeg 8.0.x. This affects the function parse_playlist of the file libavformat/hlsproto.c of the component Duration Parser. Performing a manipulation of the argument duration/target_duration results in denial of service. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. Upgrading to version 8.1 and 9.0 is able to mitigate this issue. The patch is named 64fafd63f0b4. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

5.3 medium

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

CVSS 3.1

4.3 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 47% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-404
Published: 2026-09-14
Modified: 2026-09-15
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/64fafd63f0b4
https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/issues/21492
https://ffmpeg.org/
https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-90816
https://vuldb.com/submit/922626

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