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