{"id":78086,"date":"2026-02-26T21:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-26227-vlc-for-android-3-7-0-remote-access-otp-authentication-bypass\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T21:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:23:07","slug":"cve-2026-26227-vlc-for-android-3-7-0-remote-access-otp-authentication-bypass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-26227-vlc-for-android-3-7-0-remote-access-otp-authentication-bypass\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-26227 &#8211; VLC for Android &lt; 3.7.0 Remote Access OTP Authentication Bypass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-26227<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Feb. 26, 2026, 6:23 p.m. | 47\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : VideoLAN VLC for Android prior to version 3.7.0 contain 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.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 6.3 | MEDIUM<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-26227 Published : Feb. 26, 2026, 6:23 p.m. | 47\u00a0minutes ago Description : VideoLAN VLC for Android prior to version 3.7.0 contain 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}