High severity · published Oct 6, 2025
CVE-2025-59728
Heap-buffer-overflow write in FFmpeg MDASH resolve_content_path
8.7
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
When calculating the content path in handling of MPEG-DASH manifests, there's an out-of-bounds NUL-byte write one byte past the end of the buffer.When we call xmlNodeGetContent below [0], it returns a buffer precisely allocated to match the string length, using strdup internally. If this buffer is not an empty string, it is assigned to root_url at [1].If the last (non-NUL) byte in this buffer is not '/' then we append '/' in-place at [2]. This will write two bytes into the buffer, starting at the last valid byte in the buffer, writing the NUL byte beyond the end of the allocated buffer. We recommend upgrading to version 8.0 or beyond.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 9% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MP
MPEG-DASH · FFmpeg
7.1.1 before 8.0; a218cafe4d3be005ab0c61130f90db4d21afb5db before 8.0 · source: vendor