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CVE-2020-15692
Published: Aug 14, 2020
Modified: Aug 4, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
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References
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/07/30/versions-126-and-108-released.html
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[oss-security] 20210204 [CVE-2020-15692] Nim - stdlib Browsers - `open` Argument Injection
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