Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-46461

High

Published: 25 September 2024

Published
25 September 2024
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0035 58.0th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-46461 is a high-severity Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122) vulnerability in Videolan (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 8.0 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 42.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

VLC media player 3.0.20 and earlier is vulnerable to denial of service through an integer overflow which could be triggered with a maliciously crafted mms stream (heap based overflow). If successful, a malicious third party could trigger either a crash…

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of VLC or an arbitrary code execution with the target user's privileges.

CWE(s)
CWE-122

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

Videolan
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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

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

References