CVSS 3.0
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2016-1898
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-200
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- ffmpeg:ffmpeg
- opensuse:leap