Medium
Security advisory
A local, authenticated attacker can bypass the passcode in the VideoLAN VLC media player app before 3.1.5 for iOS by opening a URL and turning the phone.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-19937
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:19 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A local, authenticated attacker can bypass the passcode in the VideoLAN VLC media player app before 3.1.5 for iOS by opening a URL and turning the phone.
osv:CVE-2018-19937
Complete source record
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"2.8.0-b2",
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"2.3.0",
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"2.2.1",
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:11.264509906Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://itunes.apple.com/ms/app/vlc-for-mobile/id650377962?mt=8",
"https://github.com/videolan/vlc-ios/pull/178/commits/d84d7c0a94eb7fba202d2c5fc3739276d2d3986f"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 381389,
"published_at": "2018-12-31T16:29:00.407+00:00"
}