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GHSA-w4vh-2xrr-v7qg
GHSA-w4vh-2xrr-v7qg
PUBLISHED
CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 1, 2022
Xdg-utils 1.0.2 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL argument to (1) xdg-open or (2) xdg-email.
Risk scores
CVSS 4.0
9.300000190734863
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Timeline
- May 1, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory (2 in total, the first dated here)
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References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429513 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29048 url
- http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-open?r1=1.32&r2=1.33 url
- http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-open?view=log url
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27528 url
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019284 url
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0342 url
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207331 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28638 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28728 url
- http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-email.in?r1=1.24&r2=1.25 url
- http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-email.in?view=log url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0386 advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html url
- http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-email?r1=1.36&r2=1.37 url
- http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-open.in?r1=1.17&r2=1.18 url
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:031 url
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-21.xml advisory