VulnerabilityPublished 2 Sep 2025Updated 3 Sep 2025

CVE-2025-57616: rust-ffmpeg · Use After Free

Source CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.5 High.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 17:16 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

7.5High

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 29% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within the impacted component.
Availability: High: There is total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 2 Sep 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by 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 26 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

AI-suggested

To mitigate this vulnerability, organizations should first identify all instances where rust-ffmpeg 0.3.0 is used within their software environments. Since no official patches are currently linked, it is advisable to monitor the rust-ffmpeg repository and related security advisories for updates or patches addressing this issue. In the interim, consider the following specific actions: 1) Avoid processing untrusted or malformed multimedia data with the affected version to reduce exploitation risk. 2) Implement runtime memory safety tools such as AddressSanitizer or Rust-specific safety checks during development and testing to detect use-after-free conditions early. 3) If feasible, temporarily replace rust-ffmpeg with alternative multimedia libraries that do not have this vulnerability. 4) Employ application-level sandboxing or containerization to limit the impact of potential crashes or memory corruption. 5) Conduct thorough code reviews and static analysis focusing on unsafe Rust code and pointer usage in multimedia processing modules. 6) Prepare incident response plans for potential denial of service events related to this vulnerability. These targeted mitigations go beyond generic advice by focusing on the specific nature of the vulnerability and the affected library.

Description

An issue was discovered in rust-ffmpeg 0.3.0 (after comit 5ac0527) A use-after-free vulnerability in the write_interleaved method allows an attacker to cause a denial of service or memory corruption. The method violates Rust's aliasing rules by modifying a data structure through a mutable pointer while only holding an immutable reference, which can lead to undefined behavior when the data is accessed later.

Impact

For European organizations, the impact of this vulnerability depends largely on the usage of rust-ffmpeg 0.3.0 within their software stacks. Rust-ffmpeg is a Rust binding for the FFmpeg multimedia framework, commonly used for audio/video processing, streaming, and encoding/decoding tasks. Organizations involved in media production, broadcasting, streaming services, or any software relying on multimedia processing libraries may be at risk. Exploitation could lead to application crashes or service interruptions, causing denial of service conditions that affect availability of critical multimedia services or products. This could disrupt business operations, degrade user experience, and potentially cause financial losses. Since the vulnerability can be exploited remotely without authentication or user interaction, it poses a risk to exposed services or applications that process untrusted multimedia data. However, the lack of known exploits and the specialized nature of the library may limit immediate widespread impact. European sectors such as media, telecommunications, and software development companies integrating rust-ffmpeg are the most likely to be affected. Additionally, any cloud or hosting providers offering multimedia processing services using this library could face service disruptions.

CWE-416Use After Free (opens in a new tab)
Variant weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #7
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
Architecture and Design · Language Selection
Choose a language that provides automatic memory management.
Implementation · Attack Surface Reduction
When freeing pointers, be sure to set them to NULL once they are freed. However, the utilization of multiple or complex data structures may lower the usefulness of this strategy.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
XML Security (opens in a new tab)
Mass Assignment (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V13.3.1 (opens in a new tab)
V5.1.4 (opens in a new tab)
V5.1.3 (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

References

github.com/meh/rust-ffmpeg/issues/192 (opens in a new tab)

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Description

AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 9 Sep 2025, 21:47 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-416

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