CVE-2020-15692

Name	CVE-2020-15692
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
nim (PTS)	buster	0.19.4-1	vulnerable
	bullseye	1.4.6+really1.4.2-2	fixed
	bookworm, sid	1.6.10-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
nim	source	(unstable)	1.2.6-1

[buster] - nim <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - nim <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/04/1