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pwned.coffeeOrder ticket · today's special · 27 Oct 2026

public exploit codeDouble espresso · 355°Ccritical86'd · no fix yet

Popcorn Time Updater: takeover risk

Popcorn Time

Popcorn Time Updater puts millions of computers at risk of takeover

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Uninstall Popcorn Time: the project is abandoned, so no release will fix it, and Eye Security’s update only disabled the updater on Windows and macOS; Android didn’t get that update.

First seen
Last update
Identifiers
CVSS
9.8
Source
news

Timeline

  1. Fix status: unknown → no fix yet.

  2. First reported.

Receipt

Exploitation
Public exploit code, no attacks reported
  • CISA ADP “CISA ADP rates exploitation of CVE-2026-30612 "poc" (SSVC).” source
  • Checked by hand “CVE-2026-30612 names no vendor and no fix (Time4Popcorn up to 6.2.1.18 on Windows, 6.2.1.17 on macOS, 3.5.0.173 on Android). SecurityWeek (27 Oct 2026), quoting Eye Security: "Our update only disabled the updater. The rest of the application is unchanged" and "our advice is simple: uninstall it"; the update went only to Windows and macOS.” source
Fix
The project is abandoned, so no release will fix it.
Score
CVSS 9.8 (critical). CVSS 3.1 9.8 (CISA ADP) for CVE-2026-30612
Last checked

Sources: KEV – CVE record ✓ Vendor ✓

Sources

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