PT-2018-9420
CVE-2018-1000523
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Published
2018-06-26
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Updated
2018-09-13
Description by
CVSS 4.0
8.3
HighMetricsAV: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.
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