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Vulnerability details: VCID-g4af-hnmu-v3bm
Vulnerability ID VCID-g4af-hnmu-v3bm
Aliases CVE-2020-26664
Summary A vulnerability in EbmlTypeDispatcher::send in VideoLAN VLC media player 3.0.11 allows attackers to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted .mkv file.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 7.0
Risk 3.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
System Score Found at
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cvssv2 6.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26664
cvssv3.1 7.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26664
archlinux Medium https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1423
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-26664
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-26664
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-25801
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-25802
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-25803
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-25804
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/henices/db11664dd45b9f322f8514d182aef5ea/raw/d56940c8bf211992bf4f3309a85bb2b69383e511/CVE-2020-26664.txt
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00012.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-37
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4834
http://videolan.com
http://vlc.com
979676 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=979676
ASA-202101-35 https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202101-35
AVG-1423 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1423
cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2020-26664 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26664
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26664
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26664
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.52216
EPSS Score 0.00292
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:30:06.871805+00:00 Alpine Linux Importer Import https://secdb.alpinelinux.org/v3.12/community.json 37.0.0