CVE-2020-15692 (GCVE-0-2020-15692)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-08-14 18:45 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:22
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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.
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