Vulnerability CVE-2014-9622
Published: 2015-01-21   Modified: 2015-01-22

Description:
Eval injection vulnerability in xdg-utils 1.1.0 RC1, when no supported desktop environment is identified, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via the URL argument to xdg-open.

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:
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/36
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3131
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/17/10
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71284
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66670
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472888
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-09
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