Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-0386

RCE

Title: Gentoo Xdg-Utils RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-0386.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Feb 04, 2008

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.09%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-0386: Xdg-utils 1.0.2 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL argument to (1) xdg-open or (2) xdg-email.

Impacted Vendors

gentoo 1

freedesktop 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207331 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html http://secunia.com/advisories/28638 http://secunia.com/advisories/28728 http://secunia.com/advisories/29048 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-21.xml http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-email.in?r1=1.24&r2=1.25 http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-email.in?view=log http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-email?r1=1.36&r2=1.37 http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-open.in?r1=1.17&r2=1.18 http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-open?r1=1.32&r2=1.33 http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-open?view=log http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:031 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27528 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019284 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0342 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429513 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207331 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html http://secunia.com/advisories/28638 http://secunia.com/advisories/28728 http://secunia.com/advisories/29048 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-21.xml http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-email.in?r1=1.24&r2=1.25 http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-email.in?view=log http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-email?r1=1.36&r2=1.37 http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-open.in?r1=1.17&r2=1.18 http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-open?r1=1.32&r2=1.33 http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-open?view=log http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:031 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27528 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019284 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0342 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429513

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-0386 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

February 04, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.