CVE-2008-0386

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-02-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Xdg-utils 1.0.2 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL argument to (1) xdg-open or (2) xdg-email.

Affected products

gentoo Xdg-Utils: through 1.0.2

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207331
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28638
http://secunia.com/advisories/28728
http://secunia.com/advisories/29048
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-21.xml
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-email.in?r1=1.24&r2=1.25
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-email.in?view=log
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-email?r1=1.36&r2=1.37
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-open.in?r1=1.17&r2=1.18
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-open?r1=1.32&r2=1.33
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-open?view=log

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