Information Exposure Affecting ffmpeg package, versions [2.0,2.8.4]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FFMPEG-2369186
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Jan 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Jan 2016

CVE-2016-1897  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for ffmpeg.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. FFmpeg 2.x allows remote attackers to conduct cross-origin attacks and read arbitrary files by using the concat protocol in an HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) M3U8 file, leading to an external HTTP request in which the URL string contains the first line of a local file.

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