CVE-2019-12761

high

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.

References

https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-PYXDG-174562

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/08/msg00003.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00006.html

https://gist.github.com/dhondta/b45cd41f4186110a354dc7272916feba

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-06-06

Updated: 2021-08-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High