CVE-2019-12761

Summary

CVECVE-2019-12761
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-06-06 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2021-08-03 15:15:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Python Pyxdg All All All All
Application Python Pyxdg All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[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

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178736 Debian Security Update for pyxdg (DLA 2727-1)
  • 752539 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for python-pyxdg (SUSE-SU-2022:2997-1)
  • 981349 Python (pip) Security Update for pyxdg (GHSA-r6v3-hpxj-r8rv)
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