CVE-2019-9721

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

Publication date:

12/03/2019

Last modified:

17/06/2026

Description

A denial of service in the subtitle decoder in FFmpeg 3.2 and 4.1 allows attackers to hog the CPU via a crafted video file in Matroska format, because handle_open_brace in libavcodec/htmlsubtitles.c has a complex format argument to sscanf.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

6.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

4.30

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:3.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:4.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04::::lts:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:3.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:4.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04::::lts:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04:::::::*

CVE-2019-9721

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools