🛡️ CVE-2023-6602 — ffmpeg

🟡 CVSS 5.3 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-99 NVD
5.3
CVSS Score
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Description

A flaw was found in FFmpeg's TTY Demuxer. This vulnerability allows possible data exfiltration via improper parsing of non-TTY-compliant input files in HLS playlists.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

Affected software and timeline

Affected software: ffmpeg (from 2.0 up to 6.0). Published on 31 December 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

bugzilla.redhat.com
lists.debian.org
bugzilla.redhat.com

CVE-2023-6602 on other distributions

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-99
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2024-12-31
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ffmpeg 2.0 6.0

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