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CVE-2016-1898
FFmpeg 2.x allows remote attackers to conduct cross-origin attacks and read arbitrary files by using the subfile protocol in an HTTP Live…
Medium5.5EPSS 13.0%
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- Updated
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- mitre
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 13.0% · top 3.6% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0243 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 1034932 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- GLSA-201705-08 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 80501 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- USN-2944-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160114 Re: Fwd: FFmpeg: stealing local files with HLS+concat (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- SSA:2016-034-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWAREx_transferred
- DSA-3506 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://habrahabr.ru/company/mailru/blog/274855 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- GLSA-201606-09 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- VU#772447 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
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)
- 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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