CVE-2020-15692
CVSS v3
9.8
CRITICAL
EPSS Score
4.2 %
exploit probability, as of 2026-10-19
CISA KEV
No
known exploited
Exploitation
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Vendor advisories
- CVE-2020-15692 Red Hat Product Security
nim: mishandling the URL argument to browsers.openDefaultBrowser could lead to arbitrary command execution
Description
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.
Technical details
- Published
- 2020-08-14
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