# CVE-2026-125185: FFmpeg through 9.0.2 Division by Zero via AFGS1 Film Grain Scaling Points


- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 9 Nov 2026
- **Updated:** 9 Nov 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-pgwj-4q23-4rrr, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-125185

## What is CVE-2026-125185?

CVE-2026-125185 is a medium-severity vulnerability in FFmpeg, published on 9 Nov 2026. 

### Official description

FFmpeg through 9.0.2 contains a division by zero vulnerability in ff_aom_parse_film_grain_sets() that fails to reject AFGS1 scaling points with repeated x values. Attackers can supply crafted HEVC or VVC files with zero-increment scaling points in T.35 SEI messages, causing generate_scaling() to divide by zero and crash the decoder.

Weakness: CWE-369 (Divide By Zero)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-125185?


## How do I fix CVE-2026-125185?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-125185 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-125185 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-125185 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-125185 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-125185 is a medium-severity vulnerability in FFmpeg, published on 9 Nov 2026. 
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-125185 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: FFmpeg. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-125185/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-125185/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-125185
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-125185
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-125185

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-125185/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.