CVE-2026-4519

high

Published 2026-05-19 · Modified 2026-04-09

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.0

Description

The webbrowser.open() API would accept leading dashes in the URL which could be handled as command line options for certain web browsers. New behavior rejects leading dashes. Users are recommended to sanitize URLs prior to passing to webbrowser.open().

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
rocky	8	fixed
rhel	9	fixed
debian	bookworm	affected
debian	bullseye	fixed	`3.9.2-1+deb11u7`
debian	forky	fixed	`7.3.22+dfsg-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`3.13.5-2+deb13u2`
rocky	9	fixed
sles		affected
debian	sid	fixed	`7.3.22+dfsg-1`
almalinux	9	fixed	`python3.11-3.11.13-9.el9_8.aarch64.rpm`

References

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

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