---
id: CVE-2025-65834
title: Meltytech Shotcut 25.10.31 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow
summary: >-
  Meltytech Shotcut 25.10.31 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. A memory access
  violation occurs when processing MLT project files with manipulated width and
  height parameters. By setting these values to extremely large numbers, the
  applica…
severity: critical
cvss: 9.8
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'
cwe:
  - CWE-120
vendor: meltytech
product: shotcut
affected:
  - shotcut = 25.10.31
published: '2025-12-16'
updated: '2026-10-05'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-05T18:10:00.200'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-65834'
references:
  - url: 'https://bytescan.net/CVE/cve-2025-65834.html'
    label: cve@mitre.org
  - url: >-
      https://sourceforge.net/projects/shotcut/files/v25.10.31/shotcut-macos-25.10.31.dmg/download
    label: cve@mitre.org
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00407
epssPercentile: 0.32653
ingestedAt: '2026-10-05T18:29:11.152Z'
---

## Overview

Meltytech Shotcut 25.10.31 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. A memory access violation occurs when processing MLT project files with manipulated width and height parameters. By setting these values to extremely large numbers, the application attempts to allocate excessive memory during image processing, triggering a buffer overflow in the mlt_image_fill_white function.

## Affected

- `shotcut = 25.10.31`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.