Code Injection Vulnerability in PyXDG Menu XML Parsing

CVE-2019-12761 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:H/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDG_CONFIG_DIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in xdg/Menu.py before an eval call.

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