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Fencer Vulns
low 2.9

CVE-2026-52296 json

FFmpeg before 9.0 has an out-of-bounds read because of missing required padding in WMA extradata allocation paths in libavcodec/wmaenc.c.

published 2026-09-13 57 d ago modified 2026-10-14 25 d ago also EUVD-2026-77125

cvss
2.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 4%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

FFmpeg before 9.0 has an out-of-bounds read because of missing required padding in WMA extradata allocation paths in libavcodec/wmaenc.c.

Patch / fix

  • FFmpeg FFmpeg 9.0
  • ffmpeg Debian 13 7:7.1.5-0+deb13u1
  • ffmpeg Debian 14 7:8.1.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-52296

  • ffmpeg-8 openSUSE Tumbleweed 8.1.3-4.1
  • ffmpeg-9 openSUSE Tumbleweed 9.0.2-5.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:12416-1openSUSE-SU-2026:12417-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-52296 updated cvss 5.5

ffmpeg: out-of-bounds read due to missing required padding in WMA extradata allocation paths

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 ffmpeg, rhelai3/bootc-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-rocm-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-aws-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-gcp-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-azure-cuda-rhel9, +1 more Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-vllm-gaudi-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Do not encode untrusted files with the WMA (Windows Media Audio) encoder in FFmpeg.”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
54 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 2.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • FFmpeg FFmpeg

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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