{"id":"CVE-2026-102875","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-102875","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T05:28:15.853Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2026-09-29T20:17:18.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-30T17:23:09.000Z","status":"Awaiting Analysis","sourceIdentifier":"disclosure@vulncheck.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":8.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-22"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00167,"percentile":0.05945,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-09-30","score":0.00167,"percentile":0.05417}]},"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 (0.17%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-09-29T20:17:18.000Z","detail":{"score":"8.5","severity":"HIGH","publishedAt":"2026-09-29T20:17:18.053Z"},"summary":"New CVE, high severity (CVSS 8.5)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/blob/3.0.23/modules/gui/skins2/src/theme_loader.cpp","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/commit/59934edbd03c6c1147d75d6c91e96633b710ec31","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/commit/8d43e99c2c01d9aab3ecad00e7a102806262b06b","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vlc-media-player-before-3.0.24-path-traversal-via-skins2","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-102875","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."}