Medium severity · published Nov 29, 2024
CVE-2024-36615
FFmpeg n7.0 has a race condition vulnerability in the VP9 decoder
5.9
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
FFmpeg n7.0 has a race condition vulnerability in the VP9 decoder. This could lead to a data race if video encoding parameters were being exported, as the side data would be attached in the decoder thread while being read in the output thread.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 38% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FF
Ffmpeg · Ffmpeg
7.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-36615
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-36615
Third Party Advisory
https://gist.github.com/1047524396/c44e5eaafa8f408eea0c9411205990fb
Product
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n7.0/libavcodec/vp9.c#L1738
Patch
https://github.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg/commit/0ba058579f332b3060d8470a04ddd3fbf305be61
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