CVE-2016-1898 in FFmpeg

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 01/14/2016
• Disclosure: 01/14/2016
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-80279 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-200 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.5
• EPSS: 0.28344
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1898
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1898
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-1898/