diff --git a/libavformat/mov.c b/libavformat/mov.c
index 2704dfb35e..70fa1e0775 100644
--- a/libavformat/mov.c
+++ b/libavformat/mov.c
@@ -2301,7 +2301,7 @@ static int mov_open_dref(AVIOContext **pb, char *src, MOVDref *ref,
 {
     /* try relative path, we do not try the absolute because it can leak information about our
        system to an attacker */
-    if (ref->nlvl_to > 0 && ref->nlvl_from > 0) {
+    if (ref->nlvl_to > 0 && ref->nlvl_from > 0 && ref->path[0] != '/') {
         char filename[1024];
         char *src_path;
         int i, l;