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CVE-2021-3185

A flaw was found in the gstreamer h264 component of gst-plugins-bad before v1.18.1 where when parsing a h264 header, an attacker could…

Critical9.8EPSS 2.5%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
redhat

Description

A flaw was found in the gstreamer h264 component of gst-plugins-bad before v1.18.1 where when parsing a h264 header, an attacker could cause the stack to be smashed, memory corruption and possibly code execution.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By redhat

  2. · 5 days later

    Published

  3. · 4 years later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2021-3185, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified3.1Critical9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.

Weakness

Affected products

  • gstreamer

    • affected Fixed in gst-plugins-bad-1.18.1

References (2)

Sources

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