National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-2809
Original release date:08/19/2010
Last revised:08/25/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.uzbl.org/news.php?id=29
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621965
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621964
External Source: XF
Name: uzbl-atselecteduri-command-execution(61011)
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.uzbl.org/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=240
External Source: BID
Name: 42297
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100806 Re: CVE request: uzbl before 2010.08.05: User-assisted execution of arbitrary commands caused by faulty default config
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100806 CVE request: uzbl before 2010.08.05: User-assisted execution of arbitrary commands caused by faulty default config
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://github.com/pawelz/uzbl/commit/342f292c27973c9df5f631a38bd12f14a9c5cdc2
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://github.com/Dieterbe/uzbl/commit/9cc39cb5c9396be013b5dc2ba7e4b3eaa647e975