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GPAC MP4Box EUVDEUVD-2025-211163

| CVE-2025-60497 MEDIUM
Buffer Overflow (CWE-119)
2026-10-21 mitre GHSA-rw26-fwfw-w28v
5.5
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: mitre
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Craft malformed MP4 file
  2. Delivery
    Deliver to victim or processing pipeline
  3. Exploit
    MP4Box parses file and calls GetESD
  4. Execution
    Invalid dpnd dereference (missing trackIDCount check)
  5. Impact
    Segmentation fault terminates process (DoS)

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Bounds checking, buffer size validation
MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques across 2 tactics: Execution, Privilege Escalation

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Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires a user or automated workflow to process (open/parse) an attacker-supplied crafted MP4 file with a vulnerable GPAC/MP4Box build before version 2.5; the malicious file must contain a track-dependency ('dpnd') structure whose trackIDCount is zero/invalid, which GetESD() dereferences without validation, producing a segmentation fault. Limiting factors: the vector is local (AV:L) and the attack cannot be triggered remotely without the victim handling the file (UI:R); impact is confined to availability (process crash), with no confidentiality or integrity consequence and no evidence of code execution. Risk is realistic only where MP4Box ingests untrusted media (e.g. upload/transcode pipelines), and is nullified by upgrading to 2.5 or applying the trackIDCount guard.

Impact

This is a genuine but low-priority vulnerability - a memory-safety DoS, not a critical RCE. The provided CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H, score 5.5 MEDIUM) is internally consistent with the description: local attack vector, no privileges but requiring user interaction (a victim must process the attacker's file), and impact limited to availability (process crash) with no confidentiality or integrity loss. Publicly available exploit code exists (github-poc reference and vuldb advisory), which raises practical risk slightly, but this must NOT be conflated with active exploitation - there is no CISA KEV listing and no EPSS score in the input, so widespread or automated exploitation is not evidenced. No SSVC decision data was provided. The source-code evidence confirms the root cause: GetESD() dereferenced a dependency structure (dpnd) without checking dpnd->trackIDCount, and the fix adds that guard - consistent with a NULL/invalid-pointer segmentation fault rather than a controllable corruption primitive. Net: a real, patch-this issue for anyone running MP4Box on untrusted media, but it does not warrant emergency prioritization given availability-only impact and the required user interaction.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker crafts a malformed MP4 file and delivers it to a victim or an automated media-processing pipeline that uses GPAC/MP4Box (before 2.5). When the file is parsed, GetESD() in isomedia/track.c accesses an invalid track-dependency structure and the process crashes with a segmentation fault, denying service. Public proof-of-concept exploit code already exists, lowering the barrier to triggering the crash; however, exploitation requires the victim to actually process the file (UI:R) and yields only a crash, not code execution.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
No patch listed yet 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 21, 2026

Processing a crafted MP4 file with GPAC/MP4Box before 2.5 can crash the application through an unvalidated track-dependency count in GetESD(), causing a denial of service. The flaw is local and user-assisted (AV:L, UI:R): the victim or an automated workflow must open or parse the malicious file, and impact is availability-only with no evidence of code execution or confidentiality/integrity loss. Publicly available exploit code exists, but the supplied data does not indicate CISA KEV active exploitation; this is a genuine but low-priority memory-safety DoS rather than a critical RCE.

RemediationAI

Upgrade to GPAC/MP4Box 2.5 or later, which incorporates upstream commit 91083fcfce01aa596a13a6962768d13a60bfc8bb; see https://github.com/gpac/gpac/issues/3336 and https://vuldb.com/vuln/424836. If immediate upgrade is not possible, do not process untrusted MP4 files with MP4Box and remove it from automated upload/transcode pipelines unless it is isolated; run the parser in a low-privilege container or VM with memory limits so a crash cannot affect other workloads. As a narrower compensating control, validate and reject MP4 inputs containing malformed or zero-count track-dependency ('dpnd') structures before invoking GPAC, but this requires custom validation and may be incomplete. Restrict media submission to trusted users and monitor for parser crashes; these measures reduce exposure but do not eliminate the underlying bug. A public proof-of-concept is referenced at https://github.com/sigdevel/pocs/blob/main/res/gpac/MP4Box/62/README.md.

Affected VersionsENISA

n/a n/a

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Technical ContextAI · show details

GPAC's ISO media parser handles MP4/ISO BMFF track metadata in src/isomedia/track.c. In GetESD(), the pre-2.5 code checks whether a track-dependency ('dpnd') structure is present but does not validate its trackIDCount before using the dependency data; the upstream fix adds the guard dpnd && dpnd->trackIDCount. A crafted file containing a zero or invalid trackIDCount can therefore drive the parser into an invalid access and segmentation fault. The supplied CPE data is generic/n/a and CWE is not provided, so product and root-cause mapping come from the GPAC issue, commit diff, and advisory references. The assessed impact class is availability/memory-safety DoS, not code execution.

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Severity by source

Vendor (mitre) PRIMARY 5.5 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
vuln.today AI 5.5 MEDIUM

Local file parsing with required user interaction and no privileges (AV:L/UI:R/PR:N); crash-only impact gives A:H with C:N/I:N and unchanged scope.

3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.0 AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (mitre).

CVSS VectorVendor: mitre

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

2
CVE Published
Oct 21, 2026 - 00:00 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
Oct 21, 2026 - 00:00 cve.org
MEDIUM 5.5

DescriptionCVE.org

A segmentation violation in the GetESD function (/isomedia/track.c) of GPAC Project/MP4Box before 2.5 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted MP4 file.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 94% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
popular open-source multimedia framework used in media packaging/transcoding pipelines
Exploit
POC
Public exploit code exists
Data Quality
7 sources
Confidence: High
EUVD NVD CVE.org EPSS Vulnrichment GitHub VulDB

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC Yes
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
Poc
System Exposure· derived
Small
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

48
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +28
PoC: +20
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.

Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.

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