Medium severity · published Jan 6, 2025
CVE-2023-6604
Ffmpeg: hls xbin demuxer dos amplification in ffmpeg
5.3
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in FFmpeg. This vulnerability allows unexpected additional CPU load and storage consumption, potentially leading to degraded performance or denial of service via the demuxing of arbitrary data as XBIN-formatted data without proper format validation.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 40% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FF
Ffmpeg · Ffmpeg
2.0 through 6.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6604
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6604
Exploit
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2334337
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00004.html
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