Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-46814

High

Published: 22 November 2023

Published
22 November 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0011 28.5th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-46814 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Videolan Vlc Media Player. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 28.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A binary hijacking vulnerability exists within the VideoLAN VLC media player before 3.0.19 on Windows. The uninstaller attempts to execute code with elevated privileges out of a standard user writable location. Standard users may use this to gain arbitrary code…

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execution as SYSTEM.

CWE(s)
CWE-427

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

videolan
vlc media player
≤ 3.0.19

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References