cve/2019/CVE-2019-12761.md

CVE-2019-12761

Description

A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDG_CONFIG_DIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in xdg/Menu.py before an eval call.

POC

Reference

• https://gist.github.com/dhondta/b45cd41f4186110a354dc7272916feba
• https://gist.github.com/dhondta/b45cd41f4186110a354dc7272916feba
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-PYXDG-174562
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-PYXDG-174562

Github

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