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CVE-2026-102875 Details

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.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.8 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc	[email protected]
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/blob/3.0.23/modules/gui/skins2/src/theme_loader.cpp	[email protected]
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/commit/59934edbd03c6c1147d75d6c91e96633b710ec31	[email protected]
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/commit/8d43e99c2c01d9aab3ecad00e7a102806262b06b	[email protected]
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vlc-media-player-before-3.0.24-path-traversal-via-skins2	[email protected]

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-22	Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')	[email protected]

Affected Products

No affected product data is available for this CVE.

Change History

2 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Sep 30, 2026	CVE Modified	CISA-ADP
Sep 29, 2026	New CVE Received	[email protected]