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CVE-2019-12730

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-12730 is a critical vulnerability affecting FFmpeg versions before 3.2.14 and 4.x before 4.1.4. The flaw, located in the aa_read_header function, stems from a missing sscanf failure check, leading to the use of uninitialized variables. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), indicating a network-exploitable flaw with low attack complexity that could result in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.2.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.03%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0303 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

git.ffmpeg.org / gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/9b4004c054964a49c7ba44583f4cee22486dd8f2
git.ffmpeg.org / gitweb/ffmpeg.git/shortlog/n4.1.4
github.com / FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/ed188f6dcdf0935c939ed813cf8745d50742014b
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / FFmpeg/FFmpeg/compare/a97ea53...ba11e40
Third Party Advisory
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Aug/30
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202003-65
usn.ubuntu.com / 4431-1
debian.org / security/2019/dsa-4502
securityfocus.com / bid/109317