Information Exposure Affecting videolan package, versions [,2.0.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIDEOLAN-2371186
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Feb 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Feb 2020

CVE-2013-3564  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade videolan to version 2.0.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The web interface in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.0.7 has no access control which allows remote attackers to view directory listings via the 'dir' command or issue other commands without authenticating.

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