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Vulnerability details: VCID-x4qg-6fnp-e3d7
Vulnerability ID VCID-x4qg-6fnp-e3d7
Aliases CVE-2018-1999012
Summary FFmpeg before commit 9807d3976be0e92e4ece3b4b1701be894cd7c2e1 contains a CWE-835: Infinite loop vulnerability in pva format demuxer that can result in a Vulnerability that allows attackers to consume excessive amount of resources like CPU and RAM. This attack appear to be exploitable via specially crafted PVA file has to be provided as input. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 9807d3976be0e92e4ece3b4b1701be894cd7c2e1 and later.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.4
Risk 3.2
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
System Score Found at
epss 0.00512 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1999012
epss 0.00512 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1999012
epss 0.00512 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1999012
epss 0.00512 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1999012
epss 0.00512 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1999012
epss 0.00512 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1999012
epss 0.00512 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1999012
epss 0.00512 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1999012
epss 0.00512 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1999012
epss 0.00512 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1999012
epss 0.00512 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1999012
epss 0.00512 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1999012
epss 0.00512 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1999012
epss 0.00512 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1999012
epss 0.00512 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1999012
epss 0.00512 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1999012
epss 0.00512 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1999012
epss 0.00512 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1999012
cvssv3 3.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 7.1 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1999012
cvssv3 6.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1999012
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1999012
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-10001
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-12458
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-13300
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-13302
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-14394
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1999010
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1999012
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1999013
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6392
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6621
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7557
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/9807d3976be0e92e4ece3b4b1701be894cd7c2e1
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00041.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104896
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2018-1999012 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1999012
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1999012
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1999012
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.65437
EPSS Score 0.00512
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:32:53.437423+00:00 Alpine Linux Importer Import https://secdb.alpinelinux.org/v3.11/community.json 37.0.0