CVE-2016-1897

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 14.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-01-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

FFmpeg 2.x allows remote attackers to conduct cross-origin attacks and read arbitrary files by using the concat protocol in an HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) M3U8 file, leading to an external HTTP request in which the URL string contains the first line of a local file.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04
FFmpeg: 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+76)
openSUSE Leap: 42.1

References

http://habrahabr.ru/company/mailru/blog/274855
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00034.html
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/110644
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3506
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80501
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034932
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.529036
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2944-1
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-09
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-08
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/772447

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