CVE-2018-1999013: ffmpeg Use After Free
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2018-1999013 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) Use After Free vulnerability in ffmpeg. EPSS estimates a 1.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77.3% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 1Timeline
- 23-07-2018PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 05-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
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.
CVSS metrics
5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated6.5MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated6.5MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- OSV · ChainguardEcosystem advisory · calculated6.5MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS trend
Probability
1.74%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
77%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
-0.03 pp
From 1.77% on 18-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Chainguard4 products
- torchaudio-ffmpeg-tarballsAll versions (No fix recorded)
- torchaudio-ffmpeg-tarballs-4.4.4All versions (No fix recorded)
- torchaudio-ffmpeg-tarballs-5.0.3All versions (No fix recorded)
- torchaudio-ffmpeg-tarballs-6.0All versions (No fix recorded)
Ubuntu4 products
- chromium-browserAll versions (No fix recorded)
- gst-libav1.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- oxide-qtAll versions (No fix recorded)
- qtwebengine-opensource-srcAll versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
- ffmpeg< 7:4.0.2-1
Ffmpeg1 product
- ffmpeg≤ 4.0.1
4 vendors · 10 products
References
5 links- github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/a7e032a277452366771951e29fd0bf2bd5c029f0X Refsource CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatchThird Party AdvisoryFIX