{"id":"CVE-2016-1897","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2016-1897","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:17:44.726Z","title":"FFmpeg 2.x allows remote attackers to conduct cross-origin attacks and read arbitrary files by using the concat protocol in an HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) M3U8 file, leading to an external HTTP request in which the URL string contains the first line of a…","description":"FFmpeg 2.x allows remote attackers to conduct cross-origin attacks and read arbitrary files by using the concat protocol in an HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) M3U8 file, leading to an external HTTP request in which the URL string contains the first line of a local file.","published":"2016-01-15T03:59:23.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:42:49.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-200"],"affected":["ffmpeg/ffmpeg","canonical/ubuntu linux","opensuse/leap"],"epss":{"score":0.14621,"percentile":0.9663,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-09-21","score":0.20841,"percentile":0.97489},{"date":"2026-09-22","score":0.14621,"percentile":0.96496}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 14.6%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[{"kind":"epss","label":"EPSS jump","at":"2026-09-21T00:00:00.000Z","detail":{"to":0.20841,"from":0.14621,"percentile":0.97489},"summary":"EPSS moved from 14.6% to 20.8% probability of exploitation in the next thirty days."}],"references":[{"url":"http://habrahabr.ru/company/mailru/blog/274855","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00034.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/110644","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3506","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/1","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80501","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034932","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.529036","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2944-1","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-09","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-08","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/772447","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://habrahabr.ru/company/mailru/blog/274855","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00034.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/110644","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3506","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/1","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80501","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034932","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.529036","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2944-1","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-09","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-08","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/772447","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1897","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."}