CVE-2019-14535 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting VideoLAN VLC media player versions prior to 3.0.8, specifically within the demux/asf/asf.c component. This divide-by-zero error, triggered by a crafted WMV file, can lead to a Floating Point Exception (FPE) and potentially arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 7.8, the vulnerability requires user interaction (opening a malicious file) but has high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there public exploits available in Metasploit or ExploitDB, though it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:3.0.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.