Security advisory

{
  "id": "c6191a8f0f77726729740b9f76cdff83945df9501c9591bed918d4f71b8cc06b",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-12761",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-12761",
    "summary": "A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDG_CONFIG_DIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in xdg/Menu.py before an eval call.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-12761",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2019-12761",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2019-12761",
        "GHSA-r6v3-hpxj-r8rv",
        "PYSEC-2019-199",
        "SNYK-PYTHON-PYXDG-174562"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/pyxdg",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "7db14dcf4c4305c3859a2d9fcf9f5da2db328330"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:python:pyxdg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "0.26"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "rel-0.25",
            "rel-0.24",
            "rel-0.23",
            "rel-0.22",
            "rel-0.21",
            "rel-0.20",
            "rel-0.20rc1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-12761.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:00.990657847Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00006.html",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/08/msg00003.html",
        "https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-PYXDG-174562",
        "https://gist.github.com/dhondta/b45cd41f4186110a354dc7272916feba"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2019-12761",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 439692,
  "published_at": "2019-06-06T19:29:00.533+00:00"
}