{"id":"CVE-2016-1898","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2016-1898","generatedAt":"2026-11-05T05:40:57.561Z","title":"FFmpeg 2.x allows remote attackers to conduct cross-origin attacks and read arbitrary files by using the subfile protocol in an HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) M3U8 file, leading to an external HTTP request in which the URL string contains an arbitrary line…","description":"FFmpeg 2.x allows remote attackers to conduct cross-origin attacks and read arbitrary files by using the subfile protocol in an HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) M3U8 file, leading to an external HTTP request in which the URL string contains an arbitrary line of a local file.","published":"2016-01-15T03:59:24.000Z","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":0.13023,"percentile":0.9635,"date":"2026-11-04","history":[{"date":"2026-09-21","score":0.16092,"percentile":0.96825},{"date":"2026-09-22","score":0.13023,"percentile":0.96162}]},"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 13.0%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"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://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://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-2016-1898","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."}