CVE-2015-0855

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2015-0855 · Published 23/03/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2015-0855 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting pitivi (pitivi).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.2%, higher than 88.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
pitivi pitivi	`≤ 0.94`	No fix yet

Description

The _mediaLibraryPlayCb function in mainwindow.py in pitivi before 0.95 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in a file path.

References

openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/8 · Mailing List
securityfocus.com/bid/97283
bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pitivi/+bug/1495272 · Issue Tracking
git.gnome.org/browse/pitivi/commit · Issue Tracking

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