Disclosure summary
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.
Source-reported weakness categories
CWE-22
Source-specific records & product guidance
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NIST National Vulnerability Database · NVD-CVE-2026-102875
Open original source · Updated Sep 30, 2026
Only CPE matches marked vulnerable=true are indexed. AND/OR platform conditions must be checked in the original NVD record.
Original records & references
- NIST NVD record
- CVE Program record
- code.videolan.org
- code.videolan.org
- code.videolan.org
- code.videolan.org
- www.vulncheck.com
PUBLISHED 2026-09-29T16:17:18-04:00
MODIFIED 2026-09-30T13:23:08-04:00
INGESTED 2026-10-06T11:43:05-04:00