CVE-2019-12761

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2019-06-06

Last modified

2024-08-04

Weaknesses

CWE-94

Affected products

• Pyxdg (Python)

References

• https://gist.github.com/dhondta/b45cd41f4186110a354dc7272916feba
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00006.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/08/msg00003.html
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-PYXDG-174562