https://vulnerability.circl.lu Contains only the most 10 recent entries. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification python-feedgen en Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:08:31 +0000 https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2019-12761 <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2019-12761 https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/usn-4700-1 <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS: pyxdg, Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: pyxdg, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: pyxdg</p> <p>Alexandre D&#39;Hondt discovered that PyXDG did not properly sanitize input. An attacker could exploit this with a crafted .menu file to execute arbitrary code.</p> <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS: pyxdg, Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: pyxdg, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: pyxdg</p> <p>Alexandre D&#39;Hondt discovered that PyXDG did not properly sanitize input. An attacker could exploit this with a crafted .menu file to execute arbitrary code.</p> https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/usn-4700-1