CVE-2020-15692

Upstream information

CVE-2020-15692 at MITRE

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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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	10
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

CVSS v3 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	9.8
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1175334 [IN_PROGRESS]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• openSUSE-SU-2022:10095-1, published Wed Aug 24 10:48:30 2022
• openSUSE-SU-2022:10101-1, published Sat Aug 27 18:50:23 2022

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3	nim >= 1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2022-10095
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP4	nim >= 1.6.6-bp154.2.3.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2022-10101
openSUSE Leap 15.3	nim >= 1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2022-10095
openSUSE Leap 15.4	nim >= 1.6.6-bp154.2.3.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2022-10101
openSUSE Tumbleweed	nim >= 1.6.6-3.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-12253

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Sat Aug 15 01:26:42 2020
CVE page last modified: Tue Sep 3 19:17:01 2024