Vulnerability CVE-2008-0386
Published: 2008-02-04   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Xdg-utils 1.0.2 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL argument to (1) xdg-open or (2) xdg-email.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Gentoo -> Xdg-utils 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429513
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0342
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019284
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27528
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-open?view=log
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-open?r1=1.32&r2=1.33
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-open.in?r1=1.17&r2=1.18
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-email?r1=1.36&r2=1.37
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-email.in?view=log
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-email.in?r1=1.24&r2=1.25
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-21.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/28728
http://secunia.com/advisories/28638
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207331
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:031
http://secunia.com/advisories/29048
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html
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