CVE-2020-15692
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 14, 2020
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Reserved
- Jul 13, 2020
Description
In Nim 1.2.4, the standard library browsers mishandles the URL argument to browsers.openDefaultBrowser. This argument can be a local file path that will be opened in the default explorer. An attacker can pass one argument to the underlying open command to execute arbitrary registered system commands.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/dc5a40f3f39c6ea672e6dc6aca7f8118a69dda99/lib/pure/browsers.nim#L48
- https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/07/30/versions-126-and-108-released.html
- [oss-security] 20210204 [CVE-2020-15692] Nim - stdlib Browsers - `open` Argument Injectionmailing-list
- https://consensys.net/diligence/vulnerabilities/nim-browsers-argument-injection/
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