Executive Summary

Summary
Title mpv: Remote code execution
Informations
Name GLSA-201805-05 First vendor Publication 2018-05-14
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2018-05-14
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been found in mpv that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Background

Video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in mpv with the handling of HTML documents containing VIDEO elements. Additionally, mpv accepts arbitrary URLs in a src attribute without a protocol whitelist in player/lua/ytdl_hook.lua.

Impact

A remote attacker, by enticing the user to visit a specially crafted web site, could execute arbitrary code.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All mpv users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/mpv-0.27.2"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2018-6360 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6360

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-05

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201805-05.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-05-15 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201805-05.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-02-12 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_3ee6e5210d3211e899b0d017c2987f9a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-02-08 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4105.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-05-15 05:17:41
  • First insertion