Security advisory
Clementine Music Player through 1.3.1 is vulnerable to a User Mode Write Access Violation, affecting the MP3 file parsing functionality at clementine+0x3aa207. The vulnerability is triggered when the user opens a crafted MP3 file or loads a remote stream URL that is mishandled by Clementine. Attackers could exploit this issue to cause a crash (DoS) of the clementine.exe process or achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the current logged-in Windows user.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-40826
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:20 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Clementine Music Player through 1.3.1 is vulnerable to a User Mode Write Access Violation, affecting the MP3 file parsing functionality at clementine+0x3aa207. The vulnerability is triggered when the user opens a crafted MP3 file or loads a remote stream URL that is mishandled by Clementine. Attackers could exploit this issue to cause a crash (DoS) of the clementine.exe process or achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the current logged-in Windows user.
osv:CVE-2021-40826
Complete source record
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