6.8
MEDIUM
CVE-2011-0522
VLC Media Player HTML Injection Vulnerability
Description

The StripTags function in (1) the USF decoder (modules/codec/subtitles/subsdec.c) and (2) the Text decoder (modules/codec/subtitles/subsusf.c) in VideoLAN VLC Media Player 1.1 before 1.1.6-rc allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a subtitle with an opening "<" without a closing ">" in an MKV file, which triggers heap memory corruption, as demonstrated using refined-australia-blu720p-sample.mkv.

INFO

Published Date :

Feb. 7, 2011, 9 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 7, 2023, 2:06 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

6.4

Exploitability Score :

8.6
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2011-0522 has a 7 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2011-0522 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Videolan vlc_media_player

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

None

Makefile Shell Scheme

Updated: 2 years ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Nov. 21, 2022, 2:06 a.m. This repo has been linked 90 different CVEs too.

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Makefile Shell Scheme

Updated: 2 years, 2 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Aug. 28, 2022, 7:18 a.m. This repo has been linked 90 different CVEs too.

None

Makefile Shell C Scheme

Updated: 2 years, 6 months ago
0 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : May 12, 2022, 8:48 a.m. This repo has been linked 90 different CVEs too.

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Makefile Shell C Scheme

Updated: 1 year, 1 month ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Dec. 12, 2020, 6:53 p.m. This repo has been linked 90 different CVEs too.

None

Makefile Shell Scheme

Updated: 4 years, 5 months ago
1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : May 25, 2020, 4:44 p.m. This repo has been linked 90 different CVEs too.

None

Makefile Shell Scheme

Updated: 4 years, 11 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Dec. 12, 2019, 7:25 p.m. This repo has been linked 90 different CVEs too.

None

Makefile Shell Scheme

Updated: 1 year, 2 months ago
4 stars 4 fork 4 watcher
Born at : March 30, 2019, 10:47 a.m. This repo has been linked 89 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2011-0522 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2011-0522 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi?p=vlc/vlc-1.1.git%3Ba=tag%3Bh=bb16813ddb61a53113c71bccc525559405785452 [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference Red Hat, Inc. http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi?p=vlc/vlc-1.1.git;a=tag;h=bb16813ddb61a53113c71bccc525559405785452
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 19, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12414 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12414 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Aug. 17, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/65029 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65029 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Feb. 08, 2011

    Action Type Old Value New Value
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

78.93 }} -3.91%

score

0.98317

percentile

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