6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.037 Low
EPSS
Percentile
91.7%
Xdg-utils 1.0.2 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to
execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL argument to
(1) xdg-open or (2) xdg-email.
Author | Note |
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jdstrand | from secure testing (and verfied here): (Ships a patch that modifies the vulnerable code and uses sed secure). NOTE: xdg-open-generic replaces the vulnerable code and runs view-mailcap or sensible-browser |