CVE-2026-102875

VLC media player before 3.0.24 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the skins2 ThemeLoader that fails to validate member names in .vlt skin archives. Attackers can craft malicious skin files with path traversal sequences to write arbitrary files with VLC user privileges, enabling code execution through Lua script injection.

  • Published Sep 29, 2026
  • CVSS 8.5 high
  • 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)
  • A fix is available

Affected software

CVE-2026-102875 at the National Vulnerability Database