CVE-2013-3565

Publication date 31 January 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the HTTP Interface in VideoLAN VLC Media Player before 2.0.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) command parameter to requests/vlm_cmd.xml, (2) dir parameter to requests/browse.xml, or (3) URI in a request, which is returned in an error message through share/lua/intf/http.lua.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
vlc 14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
13.10 saucy
Not affected
13.04 raring
Fixed 2.0.8-0ubuntu0.13.04.1
12.10 quantal
Fixed 2.0.8-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 2.0.8-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored end of life

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.1 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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