Medium severity · published Jul 24, 2026
CVE-2026-66037
FFmpeg IAMF Demuxer Uncontrolled Resource Consumption via mix_presentation_obu()
5.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
FFmpeg through 8.1.2, fixed in commit 5d7112c, contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the IAMF demuxer that allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause multi-gigabyte memory allocation from a 17-byte input file by supplying a crafted count_label field. The mix_presentation_obu() function in libavformat/iamf_parse.c calls av_calloc(count_label, sizeof(*language_label)) with an attacker-controlled value before validating available OBU data, enabling an allocation amplification of approximately 126 million bytes per input byte that exhausts process memory or triggers an OOM-kill during format probing.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 28% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FF
FFmpeg · FFmpeg
through 8.1.2 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-66037
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-66037
Patch
https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/86708357d126af84c16f80d9c57335d1e8c845c5
Issue Tracking
https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/23627
Third Party Advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ffmpeg-iamf-demuxer-uncontrolled-resource-consumption-via-mix-presentation-obu
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