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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2018-6360 json

mpv through 0.28.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site, because it reads HTML documents containing VID…

published 2018-01-28 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-18117

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.6%
EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

mpv through 0.28.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site, because it reads HTML documents containing VIDEO elements, and accepts arbitrary URLs in a src attribute without a protocol whitelist in player/lua/ytdl_hook.lua. For example, an av://lavfi:ladspa=file= URL signifies that the product should call dlopen on a shared object file located at an arbitrary local pathname. The issue exists because the product does not consider that youtube-dl can provide a potentially unsafe URL.

Patch / fix

  • mpv Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.27.0-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6360

  • mpv Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 0.27.2-1ubuntu1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6360

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • mpv openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.33.1+git.20210630T163736.f2afae55e9-1.4

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11062-1

  • mpv Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +14 more 0.27.0-r3
  • mpv Alpine 3.7 0.27.0-r2

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-6360

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • mpv Arch Linux 1:0.27.1-1

arch linux advisories AVG-605

Exploit prediction

2.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/5456 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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