CVE-2008-2147: Videolan Vlc

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VideoLAN VLC before 0.9.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious library under the modules/ or plugins/ subdirectories of the current working directory.

Affected products

• Videolan Vlc: up to and including 0.8.6; version 0.4.6 only; version 0.5.0 only; version 0.5.1 only; version 0.5.1a only; version 0.5.2 only; …

Published 2008-05-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.