CVE-2020-15692

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.2.6-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.2.6-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.2.6-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.2.6-1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-15692

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.