CVE-2023-6605

HIGHNVD 7.27.2—Trending — 5 sources updated this week

7.2

A flaw was found in FFmpeg's DASH playlist support. This vulnerability allows arbitrary HTTP GET requests to be made on behalf of the machine running FFmpeg via a crafted DASH playlist containing malicious URLs.

CVSS v3: 7.2
EG Score: 7.2(medium)
EPSS: 31.5%
KEV: Not listed

Published

January 6, 2025

Last Modified

November 3, 2025

References (2)

patrick@puiterwijkhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2334336
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00004.html

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / Ecosystem	Fixed in / Patch	Released	Source
ubuntu	libswscale7 (7:6.1.1-3ubuntu5+esm6) @ noble	2026-05-30	ubuntu

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

CWE-99Improper Control of Resource Identifiers (Resource Injection)

All Vendor Advisories

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Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

UbuntuUSN-7830-1MEDIUM
FFmpeg vulnerabilities

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 12× in last 7d / 12× in last 30d)

Every time one of our enrichment pipelines (NVD, MITRE cvelistV5, EPSS, CISA KEV, GHSA, OSV, vendor advisories) ran against this CVE. Most recent first.

2026-06-02 20:12 UTCepss_batch
2026-06-02 20:12 UTCepss_batch
2026-06-01 13:51 UTCepss_batch
2026-05-31 22:30 UTCepss_batch
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2026-05-30 14:07 UTCEG score recompute
2026-05-30 14:07 UTCVendor advisory
2026-05-30 14:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
2026-05-30 03:05 UTCOSV refresh
2026-05-29 13:43 UTCepss_batch

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2023-6605?

CVE-2023-6605 is a high vulnerability published on January 6, 2025. A flaw was found in FFmpeg's DASH playlist support. This vulnerability allows arbitrary HTTP GET requests to be made on behalf of the machine running FFmpeg via a crafted DASH playlist containing malicious URLs.

When was CVE-2023-6605 disclosed?

CVE-2023-6605 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on January 6, 2025, with the most recent update on November 3, 2025. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.

Is CVE-2023-6605 actively exploited?

CVE-2023-6605 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 31.5% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.

What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-6605?

CVE-2023-6605 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.2 (NVD).

How do I remediate CVE-2023-6605?

Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2023-6605, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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