Command Injection Affecting lookatme package, versions [, 2.3.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.15% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-LOOKATME-1023167
  • published27 Oct 2020
  • disclosed27 Oct 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-15271  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade lookatme to version 2.3.0 or higher.

Overview

lookatme is an interactive, terminal-based markdown presenter.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection. The package automatically loaded the built-in terminal and file_loader extensions. Users that use lookatme to render untrusted markdown may have malicious shell commands automatically run on their system.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1