CVE-2026-102875

HIGHPre-NVD 7.87.8—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-29. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
7.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

VLC media player before 3.0.24 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the skins2 ThemeLoader that fails to validate member names in .vlt skin archives. Attackers can craft malicious skin files with path traversal sequences to write arbitrary files with VLC user privileges, enabling code execution through Lua script injection.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
35
EG Risk 35/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity78% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
5th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

September 29, 2026

Last Modified

September 30, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Sep 29, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

VLC media player before 3.0.24 Path Traversal via skins2 | Advisories | VulnCheck

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vlc-media-player-before-3.0.24-path-traversal-via-skins2
generic

VideoLAN / VLC · GitLab

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc
generic

modules/gui/skins2/src/theme_loader.cpp · 3.0.23 · VideoLAN / VLC · GitLab

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/blob/3.0.23/modules/gui/skins2/src/theme_loader.cpp
generic

skins2: preserve URI metacharacters in archive paths (8d43e99c) · Commits · VideoLAN / VLC · GitLab

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/commit/8d43e99c2c01d9aab3ecad00e7a102806262b06b
generic

skins2: fix extraction path traversal (59934edb) · Commits · VideoLAN / VLC · GitLab

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/commit/59934edbd03c6c1147d75d6c91e96633b710ec31

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-102875(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 25× in last 7d / 25× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-10-04 11:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-10-04 00:35 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-04 00:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-10-03 13:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-10-03 02:00 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-03 02:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-10-02 14:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-10-02 03:24 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-02 03:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  12. 2026-10-01 16:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-10-01 04:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-09-30 17:26 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-09-30 17:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-09-30 15:02 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-09-30 14:31 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-09-30 14:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-30 13:53 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-09-30 13:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-09-30 07:43 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-09-30 07:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-09-29 20:22 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-29 20:03 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-29 20:03 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-102875?
CVE-2026-102875 is a high vulnerability published on September 29, 2026. VLC media player before 3.0.24 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the skins2 ThemeLoader that fails to validate member names in .vlt skin archives. Attackers can craft malicious skin files with path traversal sequences to write arbitrary files with VLC user privileges, enabling code…
When was CVE-2026-102875 disclosed?
CVE-2026-102875 was first published on September 29, 2026, with the most recent update on September 30, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-102875 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-102875 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (5th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-102875?
CVE-2026-102875 has a CVSS base score of 7.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-102875?
No fix for CVE-2026-102875 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-102875 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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