CVE-2026-125229

high

Description

FFmpeg through 9.0.2 contains an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability in the encode_frame() function of libavcodec/huffyuvenc.c, because encode_init() never validates minimum frame dimensions for the median predictor. Attackers can supply a tiny video, such as a 2-pixel-wide or 1-2-pixel-tall frame, that causes negative sub_median_pred lengths and out-of-bounds reads and writes when transcoded to huffyuv or ffvhuff, crashing the encoder.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ffmpeg-through-9.0.2-out-of-bounds-memory-access-in-huffyuv-ffvhuff-median-predictor

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/45f98d0819efe2b7ce93e9034b7e6a4ed6700621

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0.2/libavcodec/huffyuvenc.c#L762

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-120179

https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/25573

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-11-09

Updated: 2026-11-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00128