CVE-2020-22037

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2020-22037 · Published 01/06/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-22037 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting ffmpeg (ffmpeg).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.6%, higher than 75.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ffmpeg ffmpeg	`= 4.2`	No fix yet

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in FFmpeg 4.2 due to a memory leak in avcodec_alloc_context3 at options.c.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

= 4.2

No fix yet

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