CVE-2019-12761

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Published 2019-06-07 · Modified 2023-11-08

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CVSS v3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
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Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.26-1`
sid	Fixed	`0.26-1`
forky	Fixed	`0.26-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.26-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.26-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	pyxdg	`<0.26`	`0.26`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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