CVE-2014-9622
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 3.3%EU EUVD
Eval injection vulnerability in xdg-utils 1.1.0 RC1, when no supported desktop environment is identified, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via the URL argument to xdg-open.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-77
- EPSS score
- 3.3% (88th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-9435)
- Published
- January 21, 2015
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-9435 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gentoo / xdg-utils
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/36(Exploit)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62155
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3131
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/17/10
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71284
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66670(Exploit)
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472888(Exploit)
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-09
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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