{"id":"CVE-2019-14970","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-14970","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:28:39.879Z","title":"A vulnerability in mkv::event_thread_t in VideoLAN VLC media player 3.0.7.1 allows remote attackers to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted .mkv file.","description":"A vulnerability in mkv::event_thread_t in VideoLAN VLC media player 3.0.7.1 allows remote attackers to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted .mkv file.","published":"2019-08-29T19:15:14.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:19:25.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-787"],"affected":["videolan/vlc media player","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.01941,"percentile":0.80028,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-09-21","score":0.0312,"percentile":0.8724},{"date":"2026-09-22","score":0.01941,"percentile":0.79256}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.94%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git&a=search&h=refs/heads/master&st=commit&s=cve-2019","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00036.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00046.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/36","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-02","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4131-1/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4504","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.videolan.org/security/sb-vlc308.html","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git&a=search&h=refs/heads/master&st=commit&s=cve-2019","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00036.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00046.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/36","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-02","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4131-1/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4504","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.videolan.org/security/sb-vlc308.html","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14970","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."}