{"id":"CVE-2007-6262","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2007-6262","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:30:51.797Z","title":"A certain ActiveX control in axvlc.dll in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6 before 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the (1) addTarget, (2) getVariable, or (3) setVariable function, resulting from a \"bad initialized…","description":"A certain ActiveX control in axvlc.dll in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6 before 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the (1) addTarget, (2) getVariable, or (3) setVariable function, resulting from a \"bad initialized pointer,\" aka a \"recursive plugin release vulnerability.\"","published":"2007-12-06T02:46:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:47:43.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":6.8,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-119"],"affected":["videolan/vlc media player"],"epss":{"score":0.11115,"percentile":0.95906,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":true,"firstPublished":"2007-12-04","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":4688,"kind":"exploit","title":"VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.86 < 0.86d - ActiveX Remote Bad Pointer Initialization","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4688","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/windows/dos/4688.html","file":"exploits/windows/dos/4688.html","published":"2007-12-04","added":"2007-12-03","updated":"2016-10-25","author":"Ricardo Narvaja","type":"dos","platform":"windows","port":null,"verified":true,"codes":["OSVDB-42192","CVE-2007-6262"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":"http://www.exploit-db.comvlc086.exe","screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":"http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2035"}]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 11.1%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/27878","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3420","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2035","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484563/100/0/threaded","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26675","tags":["Exploit","Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.videolan.org/sa0703.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4061","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38816","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14280","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/27878","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3420","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2035","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484563/100/0/threaded","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26675","tags":["Exploit","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.videolan.org/sa0703.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4061","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38816","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14280","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6262","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}