🛡️ CVE-2025-25469 — ffmpeg

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-401 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
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Description

FFmpeg git-master before commit d5873b was discovered to contain a memory leak in the component libavutil/iamf.c.

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 low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-25469 is classified as CWE-401: Memory Leak. Allocated memory is never released, so long-running or repeated operations gradually exhaust it.

Affected software

CVE-2025-25469 is recorded against 1 package.

  • ffmpeg (fixed in 2025-01-13)

Timeline and source

Published on 18 February 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.ffmpeg.org
trac.ffmpeg.org

CVE-2025-25469 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-401
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2025-02-18
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ffmpeg — 2025-01-13

Exploit Protection

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