CVE-2019-12761
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2019-12761 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLIC |
| Assigner | [email protected] |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2019-06-06 19:29:00 UTC |
| Updated | 2021-08-03 15:15:00 UTC |
| Description | A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDG_CONFIG_DIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in xdg/Menu.py before an eval call. |
Risk And Classification
Problem Types: CWE-94
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| [SECURITY] [DLA 2727-1] pyxdg security update | MLIST | lists.debian.org | |
| Proof-of-Concept for python-xdg 0.25 Python code injection (CVE-2019-12761) · GitHub | MISC | gist.github.com | Exploit, Third Party Advisory |
| [SECURITY] [DLA 1819-1] pyxdg security update | MLIST | lists.debian.org | |
| Arbitrary Command Execution in pyxdg | Snyk | MISC | snyk.io | Third Party Advisory |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.