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FKIE_CVE-2019-12761

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-06-06 19:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:15
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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
cve@mitre.orghttps://gist.github.com/dhondta/b45cd41f4186110a354dc7272916febaExploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00006.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/08/msg00003.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-PYXDG-174562Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gist.github.com/dhondta/b45cd41f4186110a354dc7272916febaExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00006.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/08/msg00003.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-PYXDG-174562Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
python pyxdg *
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