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CVE-2026-30998 json

An improper resource deallocation and closure vulnerability in the tools/zmqsend.c component of FFmpeg v8.0.1 allows attackers to cause a D…

published 6mo ago modified 3mo ago also EUVD-2026-21974 , JLSEC-2026-650

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 34%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An improper resource deallocation and closure vulnerability in the tools/zmqsend.c component of FFmpeg v8.0.1 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted input file.

Patch / fix

  • julia FFMPEG_jll 8.1.0+0
  • julia FFMPEG_nogpl_jll 8.1.0+0
  • julia FFplay_jll 8.1.2+0

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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-2026-30998 updated cvss 5.3

FFmpeg: FFmpeg: Denial of Service vulnerability in zmqsend.c via crafted input

  • Red Hat Lightspeed Core openshift-lightspeed-tech-preview/lightspeed-rag-tool-rhel9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 ffmpeg, rhelai3/bootc-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-rocm-rhel9, redhat-user-workloads/rhel-ai-tenant/rhelai-bootc-3-3/bootc-cuda-aws-3-3, redhat-user-workloads/rhel-ai-tenant/rhelai-bootc-3-3/bootc-cuda-gcp-3-3, redhat-user-workloads/rhel-ai-tenant/rhelai-bootc-3-3/bootc-cuda-azure-3-3, +1 more Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-vllm-gaudi-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

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
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
6mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • excellent-oatmeal-319.notion.site https://excellent-oatmeal-319.notion.site/CVE-2026-30998-Resource-Leak-3265a71f9cca4dc58df4632ce8b60a50 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia FFMPEG_jll
<8.1.0+0
8.1.0+0
julia FFMPEG_nogpl_jll
<8.1.0+0
8.1.0+0
julia FFplay_jll
<8.1.2+0
8.1.2+0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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