CVE-2026-102875
VLC media player before 3.0.24 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the skins2 ThemeLoader…
- Risk score
- 48/100
- CVSS
- 7.8 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.2%
- Published
- 29 Sep 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- 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 scrip…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Upgrade the product to 3.0.24 or later.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 7.8 high
References
- 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
Original 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.
Last activity 29 Sep 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.