CVE-2023-6601 (GCVE-0-2023-6601)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-06 16:41 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:29
VLAI
Title
Ffmpeg: hls unsafe file extension bypass in ffmpeg
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.
Severity
4.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-99 - Improper Control of Resource Identifiers ('Resource Injection')
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253172 issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Affected: 2.0 , < 6.* (semver)
Date Public
2024-02-26 00:00
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