CVE-2010-2809

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-08-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

The default configuration of the <Button2> binding in Uzbl before 2010.08.05 does not properly use the @SELECTED_URI feature, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted HREF attribute of an A element in an HTML document.

Affected products

uzbl: through 2010.04.03; 2009.12.22, 2010.01.04

References

http://github.com/Dieterbe/uzbl/commit/9cc39cb5c9396be013b5dc2ba7e4b3eaa647e975
http://github.com/pawelz/uzbl/commit/342f292c27973c9df5f631a38bd12f14a9c5cdc2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128111493509265&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128111994317381&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42297
http://www.uzbl.org/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=240
http://www.uzbl.org/news.php?id=29
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621964
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621965
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/61011
http://github.com/Dieterbe/uzbl/commit/9cc39cb5c9396be013b5dc2ba7e4b3eaa647e975
http://github.com/pawelz/uzbl/commit/342f292c27973c9df5f631a38bd12f14a9c5cdc2

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