CVE-2016-1898

MEDIUM

FFmpeg 2.x - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read via HLS M3U8 Subfile Protocol

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

FFmpeg 2.x allows remote attackers to conduct cross-origin attacks and read arbitrary files by using the subfile protocol in an HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) M3U8 file, leading to an external HTTP request in which the URL string contains an arbitrary line of a local file.

References (11)

Core 11
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034932
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-08
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80501
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2944-1
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3506
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-09
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert-vn
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/772447
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/1

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.2783
EPSS Percentile 96.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-200
Status published
Products (50)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.04
ffmpeg/ffmpeg 2.0
ffmpeg/ffmpeg 2.0.1
ffmpeg/ffmpeg 2.0.2
ffmpeg/ffmpeg 2.0.3
ffmpeg/ffmpeg 2.0.4
ffmpeg/ffmpeg 2.0.5
ffmpeg/ffmpeg 2.0.6
ffmpeg/ffmpeg 2.0.7
ffmpeg/ffmpeg 2.1
... and 40 more
Published Jan 15, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026