CVE-2024-4978

CISA KEV
ACT NOW Priority: 0.00 BB Relevance: 5/100
Published: N/A Modified: N/A First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: pending_score

Description

Justice AV Solutions (JAVS) Viewer installer contains a malicious version of ffmpeg.exe, named fffmpeg.exe (SHA256: 421a4ad2615941b177b6ec4ab5e239c14e62af2ab07c6df1741e2a62223223c4). When run, this creates a backdoor connection to a malicious C2 server.

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

Vendor / Product Justice AV Solutions — Viewer
Date Added 2024-05-29
Remediation Due 2024-06-19
Please follow the vendor’s instructions as outlined in the public statements at https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2024/05/23/cve-2024-4978-backdoored-justice-av-solutions-viewer-software-used-in-apparent-supply-chain-attack#remediation and https://www.javs.com/downloads; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-4978

Bug Bounty Relevance

5 / 100
✓ Known exploited (KEV)

CVSS Score

Unscored

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

26.94%
Raw Score 0.269370
Percentile 98.0%
Date 2026-10-28

Intelligence Sources

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