Vulnerability CVE-2010-2809
Published: 2010-08-19   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
The default configuration of the <Button2> binding in Uzbl before 2010.08.05 does not properly use the @SELECTED_URI feature, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted HREF attribute of an A element in an HTML document.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
uzbl before 2010.08.05 user-assisted execution
Alex Legler
23.08.2010

Type:

CWE-94

 (Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection'))

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
UZBL -> UZBL 

 References:
http://www.uzbl.org/news.php?id=29
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621965
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621964
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/61011
http://www.uzbl.org/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=240
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42297
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128111994317381&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128111493509265&w=2
http://github.com/pawelz/uzbl/commit/342f292c27973c9df5f631a38bd12f14a9c5cdc2
http://github.com/Dieterbe/uzbl/commit/9cc39cb5c9396be013b5dc2ba7e4b3eaa647e975
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