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High · 8.8 CVE-2026-52872 EUVD-2026-62195

Streambert: Local File Exfiltration and Overwrite via Subtitle file: Protocol

Published Aug 18, 2026 · Updated Aug 19, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Streambert is a cross-platform Electron Desktop App to stream and download video content. Prior to 2.5.0, the downloadSubtitleFile utility in src/ipc/downloads.js, reached through the run-download IPC channel, accepts a renderer-supplied subtitle url using the file: URI scheme and passes its decoded pathname to fs.copyFileSync. The renderer also controls downloadPath, which determines the destination path. A compromised renderer can therefore copy any file readable by the StreamBERT process into an attacker-chosen writable location, exposing sensitive local data, and can overwrite existing writable files. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.5.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
truelockmc streambert < 2.5.0 —

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