Security Advisory
CVE-2020-15692
9.8
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Description
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.
Published Date
August 14, 2020
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory