CVE-2025-1816: FFmpeg

FFmpeg IAMF File iamf_parse.c audio_element_obu memory leak

CVSS 5.3 MediumEPSS 0.0054 · 45th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: VulDB) at 2 Mar 2025, 14:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Not given	FFmpeg	affected 6e26f57f672b05e7b8b052007a83aef99dc81ccb

Identifiers

CVE-2025-1816

CNA

VulDB

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-401 · CWE-404

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
5.3	Medium	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CNA (VulDB)Used for this record
4.3	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	CNA (VulDB)
4.3	Medium	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	CNA (VulDB)
5.0	Medium	2.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P	CNA (VulDB)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0054, the 45th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 2 Mar 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

vuldb.com/?id.298089 vdb-entrytechnical-description
vuldb.com/?ctiid.298089 signaturepermissions-required
vuldb.com/?submit.506575 third-party-advisory
trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/11475 issue-tracking
git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/0526535cd58444dd264e810b2f3348b4d96cff3b patch
ffmpeg.org/ product
trac.ffmpeg.org/attachment/ticket/11475/poc exploitissue-tracking

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.