CVE-2014-9622

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-01-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-77

Description

Eval injection vulnerability in xdg-utils 1.1.0 RC1, when no supported desktop environment is identified, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via the URL argument to xdg-open.

Affected products

gentoo Xdg-Utils: 1.1.0-rc1

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/36
http://secunia.com/advisories/62155
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3131
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/17/10
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71284
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66670
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472888
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-09
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/36
http://secunia.com/advisories/62155
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3131
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/17/10

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