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.

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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.
Title VLC media player before 3.0.24 Path Traversal via skins2
First Time appeared Videolan
Videolan vlc
Weaknesses CWE-22
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Videolan
Videolan vlc
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.5, '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'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-29T20:01:05.435Z

Reserved: 2026-09-29T17:33:11.161Z

Link: CVE-2026-102875

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-29T20:17:18.053

Modified: 2026-09-29T20:17:18.053

Link: CVE-2026-102875

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