CVE-2008-2147

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-05-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VideoLAN VLC before 0.9.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious library under the modules/ or plugins/ subdirectories of the current working directory.

Affected products

VideoLAN Vlc: through 0.8.6; 0.4.6, 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.5.1a, 0.5.2, 0.5.3 (+17)

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c7cef4fdd8dd72ce0a45be3cda8ba98df5e83181
http://secunia.com/advisories/31317
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-13.xml
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1578
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42377
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c7cef4fdd8dd72ce0a45be3cda8ba98df5e83181
http://secunia.com/advisories/31317
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-13.xml
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1578
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42377

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