7.2

CVE-2023-6605: ffmpeg Resource Injection

CVSS: 7.2v3.1HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-6605DEBIAN-CVE-2023-6605
Published 06-01-2025Last modified 03-11-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-6605 is a high (CVSS 7.2) Resource Injection vulnerability in ffmpeg. EPSS estimates a 0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 29.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
29/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.2/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.37%
0%100%
Low · -0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 1
DLA-4241-1DSA-5985-1MGASA-2025-0306USN-7830-1

Timeline

  1. 06-01-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-11-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A flaw was found in FFmpeg's DASH playlist support. This vulnerability allows arbitrary HTTP GET requests to be made on behalf of the machine running FFmpeg via a crafted DASH playlist containing malicious URLs.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.37%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

29%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

-0.01 pp

From 0.38% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.37%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu2 products
  • ffmpegAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 7:4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1+esm11 | < 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm10 | < 7:6.1.1-3ubuntu5+esm6
  • libavAll versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • ffmpeg< 7:5.1.7-0+deb12u1 | < 7:7.1.1-1
Ffmpeg1 product

3 vendors · 4 products

References

6 links