CVSS 3.1
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-15692
Critical (9.8) in nim-lang nim. EPSS 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 90% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-88
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- nim-lang:nim
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/04/1
- https://consensys.net/diligence/vulnerabilities/nim-browsers-argument-injection/
- https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/dc5a40f3f39c6ea672e6dc6aca7f8118a69dda99/lib/pure/browsers.nim#L48
- https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/07/30/versions-126-and-108-released.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/04/1