CVE-2019-12761
HIGHPyXDG < 0.26 - Code Injection via Menu XML Category Element
Title source: llmDescription
A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDG_CONFIG_DIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in xdg/Menu.py before an eval call.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gist.github.com/dhondta/b45cd41f4186110a354dc7272916feba
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-PYXDG-174562
Mailing List mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00006.html
Mailing List mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/08/msg00003.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0061
EPSS Percentile
70.0%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-94
Status
published
Products (2)
pypi/pyxdg
0 - 0.26PyPI
python/pyxdg
< 0.26
Published
Jun 06, 2019
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026