CVE-2020-15692
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15692
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-15692.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-15692
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2020-08-14T19:15:12Z
- Modified
- 2025-10-21T05:40:55.389200Z
- Severity
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- 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- 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