vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2020-15692): nim vulnerability

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 14, 2020
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Oct 30, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-nim
Title
NEW

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