CVE-2019-12761: Code Injection
First published: Thu Jun 06 2019(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Python Pyxdg | <0.26 | |
| pip/pyxdg | <0.26 | 0.26 |
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Reference Links
- 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
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12761
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pyxdg/PYSEC-2019-199.yaml
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r6v3-hpxj-r8rv (Advisory)
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