CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-102875
8.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Published
- 2026-09-29
- Last modified
- 2026-09-30
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 8.5 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
VLC media player before 3.0.24 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the skins2 ThemeLoader that fails to validate member names in .vlt skin archives. Attackers can craft malicious skin files with path traversal sequences to write arbitrary files with VLC user privileges, enabling code execution through Lua script injection.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc code.videolan.org
- https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/blob/3.0.23/modules/gui/skins2/src/theme_loader.cpp code.videolan.org
- https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/commit/59934edbd03c6c1147d75d6c91e96633b710ec31 code.videolan.org
- https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/commit/8d43e99c2c01d9aab3ecad00e7a102806262b06b code.videolan.org
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vlc-media-player-before-3.0.24-path-traversal-via-skins2 www.vulncheck.com