CVE-2019-18278

7.8 highEPSS 0.4%

High (7.8) in videolan vlc media player. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

When executing VideoLAN VLC media player 3.0.8 with libqt on Windows, Data from a Faulting Address controls Code Flow starting at libqt_plugin!vlc_entry_license__3_0_0f+0x00000000003b9aba. NOTE: the VideoLAN security team indicates that they have not been contacted, and have no way of reproducing this issue.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 36% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2019-10-23
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

videolan:vlc_media_player

References

https://code610.blogspot.com/2019/10/random-bytes-in-vlc-308.html
https://code610.blogspot.com/2019/10/random-bytes-in-vlc-308.html

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