CVE-2020-15692

2020-08-1419:15:12

Debian Security Bug Tracker

security-tracker.debian.org

nim 1.2.4

standard library

browsers.opendefaultbrowser

url argument

system commands

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS3

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.008

Percentile

81.7%

JSON

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.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Debian12allnim< 1.2.6-1nim_1.2.6-1_all.deb
Debian11allnim< 1.2.6-1nim_1.2.6-1_all.deb
Debian999allnim< 1.2.6-1nim_1.2.6-1_all.deb