{"id":"CVE-2019-8378","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-8378","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:26:03.494Z","title":"It allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.","description":"An issue was discovered in Bento4 1.5.1-628. A heap-based buffer over-read exists in AP4_BitStream::ReadBytes() in Codecs/Ap4BitStream.cpp, a similar issue to CVE-2017-14645. It can be triggered by sending a crafted file to the aac2mp4 binary. It allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.","published":"2019-02-17T02:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:41:55.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-125"],"affected":["axiosys/bento4"],"epss":{"score":0.01605,"percentile":0.75685,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.60%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4/issues/363","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/a-heap-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-the-function-ap4_bitstreamreadbytes-bento4-1-5-1-628/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4/issues/363","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/a-heap-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-the-function-ap4_bitstreamreadbytes-bento4-1-5-1-628/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8378","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}