CVE-2010-3124: Videolan Vlc Media Player

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 12.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in bin/winvlc.c in VLC Media Player 1.1.3 and earlier allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse wintab32.dll that is located in the same folder as a .mp3 file.

Affected products

• Videolan Vlc Media Player: up to and including 1.1.3; version 0.1.99b only; version 0.1.99e only; version 0.1.99f only; version 0.1.99g only; version 0.1.99h only; …

Published 2010-08-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.