Code Injection Vulnerability in FFmpeg 0.7.0 and Below: Exploiting Unchecked Arguments in net.bramp.ffmpeg.FFmpeg.<constructor>

CVE-2023-39018 · CRITICAL Severity

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

FFmpeg 0.7.0 and below was discovered to contain a code injection vulnerability in the component net.bramp.ffmpeg.FFmpeg.<constructor>. This vulnerability is exploited via passing an unchecked argument. NOTE: this is disputed by multiple third parties because there are no realistic use cases in which FFmpeg.java uses untrusted input for the path of the executable file.

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