CVE-2019-12761
pyxdg - security update
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.61%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2019-12761
To remediate CVE-2019-12761, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 0.26-1 or later
- —upgrade to 0.25-4+deb8u1 or later
- —upgrade to 0.25-4+deb9u1 or later
- —upgrade to 0.26 or later
- —upgrade to 0.26 or later
Is CVE-2019-12761 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (5)
- from 0, < 0.26-1
- from 0, < 0.25-4+deb8u1
- from 0, < 0.25-4+deb9u1
- from 0, < 0.26
- from 0, < 0.26
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |