CVE-2012-10024: Xbmc Media Center

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

XBMC version 11.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability in its embedded HTTP server. When accessed via HTTP Basic Authentication, the server fails to properly sanitize URI input, allowing authenticated users to request files outside the intended document root. An attacker can exploit this flaw to read arbitrary files from the host filesystem, including sensitive configuration or credential files.

Affected products

• Xbmc Media Center: up to and including 11.0

Published 2025-08-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.