- 8.4HighCVSS base score
- 0.44%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 61% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Xion Audio Player versions 1.0.126 and prior are vulnerable to a Unicode-based stack buffer overflow triggered by opening a specially crafted .m3u playlist file. The file contains an overly long string that overwrites the Structured Exception Handler (SEH) chain, allowing an attacker to hijack execution flow and run arbitrary code.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module for it. 5 references of the record are tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits6
Metasploit modules1 module
- Xion Audio Player 1.0.126 Unicode Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/fileformat/xion_m3u_sehbofRank greatdisclosed 23 Nov 2010
References tagged exploit5 references
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/xion_m3u_sehbof.rb (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14517 (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14633 (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15598 (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16653 (opens in a new tab)exploit
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 11 months later
· 11 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| VulnCheckCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | High8.4 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | High8.4 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.44% · top 61% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.4.
Affected products
- affected ≤ 1.0.126
References
References7
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/xion_m3u_sehbof.rb (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14517 (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14633 (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15598 (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16653 (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://www.r2.com.au/page/products/download/xion-audio-player/ (opens in a new tab)product
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/xion-audio-player-unicode-stack-buffer-overflow (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-5300 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2010-20042)Record last updated .