Arbitrary Argument Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nim (opens in a new tab)
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- published22 Aug 2020
- disclosed14 Aug 2020
Introduced: 14 Aug 2020
CVE-2020-15692 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:13.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nim package and not the nim package as distributed by Debian.
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