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CVE-2023-51795VulnerabilityPublished Updated

CVE-2023-51795: n/a

Source CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.0 High.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 06:26 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
8.0High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 19% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 19 Apr 2024

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-26.

What to do

AI-suggested

To mitigate CVE-2023-51795 effectively, European organizations should: 1) Immediately audit and restrict local access to systems running vulnerable versions of Ffmpeg, enforcing strict user permissions and monitoring for unauthorized access attempts. 2) Implement application whitelisting and endpoint detection to identify anomalous behavior indicative of exploitation attempts. 3) Isolate media processing workloads in sandboxed or containerized environments to limit the blast radius of potential exploits. 4) Monitor vendor channels and security advisories closely for official patches or updates addressing this vulnerability and apply them promptly upon release. 5) Conduct code reviews and testing for any custom integrations of Ffmpeg to identify and remediate unsafe usage of the showspectrumpic filter. 6) Educate internal teams about the risks of local privilege escalation and enforce strong authentication and session management to reduce insider threat risks. 7) Consider deploying runtime application self-protection (RASP) or similar technologies to detect and block exploitation attempts in real time. These measures go beyond generic advice by focusing on access control, environment isolation, and proactive monitoring tailored to the local attack vector and media processing context.

Description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Ffmpeg v.N113007-g8d24a28d06 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via the libavfilter/avf_showspectrum.c:1789:52 component in showspectrumpic_request_frame

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