{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-26227 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2026-26227 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2026-26227 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in VideoLAN VLC for Android, published on 26 Feb 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-26227 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-26227 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in VideoLAN VLC for Android, published on 26 Feb 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-26227 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: VideoLAN VLC for Android. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-26227/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-26227/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-26227","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-26227/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-26227","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-r78h-rv66-c9hf"],"analysis":{"component_type":"mobile_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_read","security_bypass"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"VLC for Android","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can bypass OTP authentication in VLC for Android's Remote Access Server to access shared media files due to missing rate limiting.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"auth_bypass"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"VulnCheck","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":6.3,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","version":"4.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-307","name":"Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts"}],"description":"VideoLAN VLC for Android prior to version 3.7.0 contains an authentication bypass in the Remote Access Server feature due to missing or insufficient rate limiting on one-time password (OTP) verification. The Remote Access Server uses a 4-digit OTP and does not enforce effective throttling or lockout within the OTP validity window, allowing an attacker with network reachability to the server to repeatedly attempt OTP verification until a valid user_session cookie is issued. Successful exploitation results in unauthorized access to the Remote Access interface, limited to media files explicitly shared by the VLC for Android user.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":false,"headline":"VLC for Android \u003c 3.7.0 Remote Access OTP Authentication Bypass","id":"CVE-2026-26227","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"auth_bypass","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"VLC for Android \u003c 3.7.0 Remote Access Path Traversal","id":"CVE-2026-26228"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"beautiful-mermaid \u003c 0.1.3 SVG Attribute Injection","id":"CVE-2026-26226"},"products":["VLC for Android"],"published":"2026-02-26","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-13","vendors":["VideoLAN"]},"summary":"Attackers can bypass OTP authentication in VLC for Android's Remote Access Server to access shared media files due to missing rate limiting.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-26227/"}