Xdg-Utils vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Xdg-Utils is made by Freedesktop. We track 5 published vulnerabilities in it, across 7 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Xdg-Utils, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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- 3.2%CVE-2015-1877High
The open_generic_xdg_mime function in xdg-open in xdg-utils 1.1.0 rc1 in Debian, when using dash, does not properly handle local variables, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted file.
- 2.4%CVE-2017-18266High
The open_envvar function in xdg-open in xdg-utils before 1.1.3 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct...
- 2.2%CVE-2009-0068Medium
Interaction error in xdg-open allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending a file with a dangerous MIME type but using a safe type that Firefox sends to xdg-open, which causes xdg-open to process the...
- 1.4%CVE-2020-27748Medium
A flaw was found in the xdg-email component of xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc1 and newer.
- 0.7%CVE-2022-4055High
When xdg-mail is configured to use thunderbird for mailto URLs, improper parsing of the URL can lead to additional headers being passed to thunderbird that should not be included per RFC 2368.
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The open_generic_xdg_mime function in xdg-open in xdg-utils 1.1.0 rc1 in Debian, when using dash, does not properly handle local variables, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted file.
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We track 5 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Xdg-Utils, across 7 versions.
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