Arbitrary Argument Injection Affecting nim package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-NIM-608224
- published 22 Aug 2020
- disclosed 14 Aug 2020
Introduced: 14 Aug 2020
CVE-2020-15692 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:10 nim.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nim package and not the nim package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-15692
- https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/07/30/versions-126-and-108-released.html
- https://consensys.net/diligence/vulnerabilities/nim-browsers-argument-injection/
- https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/dc5a40f3f39c6ea672e6dc6aca7f8118a69dda99/lib/pure/browsers.nim#L48
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/04/1
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