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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-08-14T18:45:35

Updated: 2024-08-04T13:22:30.730Z

Reserved: 2020-07-13T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-15692

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-08-14T19:15:12.317

Modified: 2021-02-08T20:44:43.493

Link: CVE-2020-15692

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