FKIE_CVE-2023-6601

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-01-06 17:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:51
Severity
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
Summary
A flaw was found in FFmpeg's HLS demuxer. This vulnerability allows bypassing unsafe file extension checks and triggering arbitrary demuxers via base64-encoded data URIs appended with specific file extensions.
References
patrick@puiterwijk.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253172Exploit, Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00004.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ffmpeg ffmpeg *
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