PT-2018-9420 · Topydo · Topydo

Minchinweb · Published 2018-06-26 · Updated 2018-09-13 · CVE-2018-1000523

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

8.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions topydo (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to improper input validation in the ListFormatParser::parse function, located in the topydo/lib/ListFormat.py file. This can lead to the injection of arbitrary bytes to the terminal, including terminal escape code sequences. The attack appears to be exploitable if the victim opens a todo.txt file with at least one specially crafted line.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-1000523

GHSA-H6H9-PPHV-M266

PYSEC-2018-76

Affected Products

Topydo

References · 9

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-h6h9-pphv-m266 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000523 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1000523 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2018-76 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/bram85/topydo/issues/240 · Note
• https://github.com/bram85/topydo/blob/master/topydo/lib/ListFormat.py#L292 · Note
• https://github.com/bram85/topydo · Note
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/topydo/PYSEC-2018-76.yaml · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h6h9-pphv-m266 · Note