CVE-2016-1898

MEDIUM

FFmpeg 2.x - XSS

Title source: llm

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)

[Exploit] http://habrahabr.ru/company/mailru/blog/274855

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00034.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80501

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034932

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.529036

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2944-1

[Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource] https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/772447

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3506

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-09

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-08

[Mailing List] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/1

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.3318

EPSS Percentile 96.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Classification

CWE

CWE-200

Status draft

Affected Products (50)

ffmpeg/ffmpeg

ffmpeg/ffmpeg

ffmpeg/ffmpeg

ffmpeg/ffmpeg

ffmpeg/ffmpeg

ffmpeg/ffmpeg

ffmpeg/ffmpeg

ffmpeg/ffmpeg

ffmpeg/ffmpeg

ffmpeg/ffmpeg

ffmpeg/ffmpeg

ffmpeg/ffmpeg

ffmpeg/ffmpeg

ffmpeg/ffmpeg

ffmpeg/ffmpeg

... and 35 more

Timeline

Published Jan 15, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026