CVE-2020-13152

MEDIUM

Amarok 2.8.0 - Denial of Service via Crafted M3U Playlist File

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2020-13152. PoCs published by FishballAndMeatball.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit creates a maliciously large M3U file (6368545 bytes) to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) in Amarok 2.8.0 by overwhelming the application's file parsing capabilities.

Description

A remote user can create a specially crafted M3U file, media playlist file that when loaded by the target user, will trigger a memory leak, whereby Amarok 2.8.0 continue to waste resources over time, eventually allows attackers to cause a denial of service.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC
by FishballAndMeatball · perllocalwindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48993

This exploit creates a maliciously large M3U file (6368545 bytes) to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) in Amarok 2.8.0 by overwhelming the application's file parsing capabilities.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Amarok 2.8.0
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Ability to write a file to the target system or convince a user to open the malicious M3U file
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0252
EPSS Percentile 85.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (1)
kde/amarok 2.8.0
Published May 20, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026