CVE-2020-15692
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 2.1%Published: 8/14/2020Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-15692
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/nimfrom 0, < 1.2.6-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |