CVE-2026-102875
HIGHCVSS 7.8Description
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.
Timeline
Published:September 29th, 2026 8:17 PM
Last modified:September 30th, 2026 5:23 PM
CVSS Scoring
CVSS v3: 7.8 (HIGH)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
References & Reports
Advisories, patches, and third-party reports
- https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc
- https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/blob/3.0.23/modules/gui/skins2/src/theme_loader.cpp
- https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/commit/59934edbd03c6c1147d75d6c91e96633b710ec31
- https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/commit/8d43e99c2c01d9aab3ecad00e7a102806262b06b
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vlc-media-player-before-3.0.24-path-traversal-via-skins2
Source: NIST NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute