CVE-2020-5764: Mxplayer Mx Player

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

MX Player Android App versions prior to v1.24.5, are vulnerable to a directory traversal vulnerability when user is using the MX Transfer feature in "Receive" mode. An attacker can exploit this by connecting to the MX Transfer session as a "sender" and sending a MessageType of "FILE_LIST" with a "name" field containing directory traversal characters (../). This will result in the file being transferred to the victim's phone, but being saved outside of the intended "/sdcard/MXshare" directory. In some instances, an attacker can achieve remote code execution by writing ".odex" and ".vdex" files in the "oat" directory of the MX Player application.

Affected products

• Mxplayer Mx Player: before 1.24.5 (fixed in 1.24.5)

Published 2020-07-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.