Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting qutebrowser package, versions [1.7.0,2.4.0)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-QUTEBROWSER-1766504
- published 22 Oct 2021
- disclosed 22 Oct 2021
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 22 Oct 2021
CVE-2021-41146 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade qutebrowser to version 2.4.0 or higher.
Overview
qutebrowser is a keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. The Windows installer for qutebrowser registers a qutebrowserurl: URL handler. With certain applications, opening a specially crafted qutebrowserurl:... URL can lead to execution of qutebrowser commands, which in turn allows arbitrary code execution via commands such as :spawn or :debug-pyeval.
Only Windows installs where qutebrowser is registered as URL handler are affected.