CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-12761

7.5 HIGH Published 2019-06-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-06-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-94

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• python pyxdg (< 0.26)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness

References