High

Code Injection in PyXDG

Disclosed: 06.06.2019
Updated: 11.10.2026 11:20

A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDG_CONFIG_DIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in xdg/Menu.py before an eval call.

Affected software

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Platform	Package	Vulnerable versions	Fixed in
Python (PyPI)	pyxdg	< 0.26	0.26

References

CVSS score 7.5/10

CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-94
Platform: Python (PyPI)
Package: pyxdg
Disclosed: 06.06.2019
Updated: 11.10.2026 11:20

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2019-199 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-r6v3-hpxj-r8rv - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: pyxdg

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Python (PyPI)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

Total entries: 2
First → latest: 01.2014 06.2019
Without a fix: 0
Exploited in attacks: 0

Severity breakdown

High 1
Low 1

Disclosures per year

2017: 0
2018: 0
2019: 1
2020: 0
2021: 0
2022: 0
2023: 0
2024: 0
2025: 0
2026: 0

earlier: 1

06.06.2019

Code Injection in PyXDG this entry

High · 7.5 CVE-2019-12761 < 0.26 0.26
28.01.2014

Race condition in the xdg.BaseDirectory.get_runtime_dir function in python-xdg 0.25 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by pre-creating /tmp/pyxdg-runtime-dir-fallback-victim to point to a

Low CVE-2014-1624 >= 0.25, < 0.26 0.26

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