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CVSS 8.0 HIGH 🔴 ACTIVELY EXPLOITED Security Vulnerability

CVE-2026-8461: Sharing findings on PixelSmash (CVE-2026-8461): High-severity FFmpeg vulnerability; what…

<!-SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><em>Disclosure: I work at JFrog, which discovered this vulnerability just sharing the info below.</em> </p> <p><strong>TL;DR:<…

8.0CVSS Score
HIGHSeverity
NOCISA KEV
Security VulnerabilityImpact Type

📋 Vulnerability Details

CVE IDCVE-2026-8461
Vendorreddit_cyber
Affected ProductThreat Intelligence
Vulnerability TypeSecurity Vulnerability
CVSS Score8.0 (HIGH)
Actively Exploited✅ Yes
Patch StatusSee Vendor Advisory →
Reported ByCYBERDUDEBIVASH SENTINEL APEX Intelligence (via reddit_cyber)

🔬 Technical Analysis

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><em>Disclosure: I work at JFrog, which discovered this vulnerability - just sharing the info below.</em> </p> <p><strong>TL;DR:</strong> A heap out-of-bounds write in FFmpeg's MagicYUV decoder (CVSS 8.8), the world’s most ubiquitous open-source multimedia framework that processes and streams over 90% of all video and audio content on the internet. <br/> <br/> The discovered vulnerability is capable of performing Remote Code Execution (RCE) to crash any application that uses FFmpeg by delivering a single 50 KB media file. This isn't a theoretical bug. Researchers demonstrated full RCE against Jellyfin (triggered by automatic library scan – no user interaction) and Ne

🎯 Known Indicators of Compromise

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