CVE-2018-6360

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

mpv through 0.28.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site, because it reads HTML documents containing VIDEO elements, and accepts arbitrary URLs in a src attribute without a protocol whitelist in player/lua/ytdl_hook.lua. For example, an av://lavfi:ladspa=file= URL signifies that the product should call dlopen on a shared object file located at an arbitrary local pathname. The issue exists because the product does not consider that youtube-dl can provide a potentially unsafe URL.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6360

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201802-7

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1:0.27.1-1
debian debianbookwormfixed0.27.0-3
debian debianbullseyefixed0.27.0-3
debian debianforkyfixed0.27.0-3
debian debiansidfixed0.27.0-3
debian debiantrixiefixed0.27.0-3

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.