High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 5, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2017-8368

Description

Sublime Text 3 Build 3126 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .mkv file. One threat model is a victim who obtains an untrusted crafted file from a remote location and issues several user-defined commands, as demonstrated by Ctrl-A, Delete, and Ctrl-Z.

Affected products

Sublimetext/Sublime Text 3
cpe:2.3:a:sublimetext:sublime_text_3:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-8368nvdThird Party Advisory
github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/issues/1700nvd

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