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Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting pyxdg package, versions *

low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    User Interaction Required
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.97% (84th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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SUSE
7.3 high
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Red Hat
6.1 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-PYXDG-349405
  • published 6 Jun 2019
  • disclosed 6 Jun 2019
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Introduced: 6 Jun 2019

CVE-2019-12761 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-94 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:10 pyxdg.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pyxdg package and not the pyxdg package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.