CVE-2018-6360

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-01-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

mpv through 0.28.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site, because it reads HTML documents containing VIDEO elements, and accepts arbitrary URLs in a src attribute without a protocol whitelist in player/lua/ytdl_hook.lua. For example, an av://lavfi:ladspa=file= URL signifies that the product should call dlopen on a shared object file located at an arbitrary local pathname. The issue exists because the product does not consider that youtube-dl can provide a potentially unsafe URL.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0
Mpv: through 0.28.0

References

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/e6e6b0dcc7e9b0dbf35154a179b3dc1fcfcaff43
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/5456
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-05
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4105
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/e6e6b0dcc7e9b0dbf35154a179b3dc1fcfcaff43
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/5456
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-05
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4105

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