USN-6141-1

Robin Peraglie and Johannes Moritz discovered that xfce4-settings incorrectly parsed quoted input when processed through xdg-open. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary arguments into the default browser or file manager.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / xfce4-settings

Package

Name: xfce4-settings
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/xfce4-settings@4.16.2-1ubuntu2.22.04.1?arch=source&distro=jammy

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

4.16.2-1ubuntu2.22.04.1

Affected versions

4.*

4.16.2-1ubuntu1

4.16.2-1ubuntu2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "4.16.2-1ubuntu2.22.04.1",
            "binary_name": "xfce4-helpers"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.16.2-1ubuntu2.22.04.1",
            "binary_name": "xfce4-settings"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:22.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2022-45062"
        }
    ]
}