What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-5764

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-07-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

MX Player Android App versions prior to v1.24.5, are vulnerable to a directory traversal vulnerability when user is using the MX Transfer feature in "Receive" mode. An attacker can exploit this by connecting to the MX Transfer session as a "sender" and sending a MessageType of "FILE_LIST" with a "name" field containing directory traversal characters (../). This will result in the file being transferred to the victim's phone, but being saved outside of the intended "/sdcard/MXshare" directory. In some instances, an attacker can achieve remote code execution by writing ".odex" and ".vdex" files in the "oat" directory of the MX Player application.

Affected products

• MX Player Android App: before 1.24.5 — fixed in 1.24.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: MX Player Android App 1.24.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-41
• https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-41

Get alerted when CVE-2020-5764 or the next vulnerability affects your stack