CVE-2019-12761

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    CVE-2019-12761

    Published: 6 Jun 2019Last Modified: 13 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00006.html, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/08/msg00003.html, https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-PYXDG-174562, https://gist.github.com/dhondta/b45cd41f4186110a354dc7272916feba

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -7db14dcf4c4305c3859a2d9fcf9f5da2db328330

    Affected versions

    rel-0.20

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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    High