CVE-2008-2147

Aliases:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2147
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 3
Modified
Published: 12 May 2008, 20:00
Last modified:07 Aug 2024, 08:49

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
18/100
CVSS Score
4.6 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.42% LOW
0% probability +0.34%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

12 May 2008, 20:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
07 Aug 2024, 08:49
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VideoLAN VLC before 0.9.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious library under the modules/ or plugins/ subdirectories of the current working directory.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.6AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.42%• Percentile: 36%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-264•Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

    Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features that are used to perform access control.

Affected Systems

  • debian•vlc

    < 0.8.6.e-2.2 | < 0.8.6.e-2.2 | < 0.8.6.e-2.2 | < 0.8.6.e-2.2

  • videolan•vlc

    ≤ 0.8.6 | 0.4.6 | 0.5.0 | 0.5.1 | 0.5.1a | 0.5.2 | 0.5.3 | 0.6.0 | 0.6.1 | 0.6.2 | 0.7.0 | 0.7.1 | 0.7.2 | 0.8.0 | 0.8.1 | 0.8.2 | 0.8.4 | 0.8.4a | 0.8.5 | 0.8.6a | 0.8.6b | 0.8.6c | 0.8.6d | 0.8.6e

References (6)