High
VLC media player before 3.0.24 Path Traversal via skins2
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.
Announced Source revision 1
Original source ↗CVE-2026-102875
Primary source · Revision 1
Imported from structured advisory data. Source references identify upstream records or fields; verify affected versions and your deployed configuration.
Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-102875
vlc
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"vendor": "videolan",
"product": "vlc",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "0",
"lessThan": "3.0.24",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "3.0.24",
"versionType": "semver"
}
],
"defaultStatus": "unaffected"
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-102875
Source reference:
/cveMetadata/cveId
Publisher severity
high
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics
- Event
- #4369 · Revision 1
- Added to Heist Feed
- Publisher date