Gnome-maps: gnome maps is vulnerable to a code injection attack (similar to xss) via its service.json

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-43091",
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    "title": "Gnome-maps: gnome maps is vulnerable to a code injection attack (similar to xss) via its service.json",
    "summary": "A flaw was found in GNOME Maps, which is vulnerable to a code injection attack via its service.json configuration file. If the configuration file is malicious, it may execute arbitrary code.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:53.489139931Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/43xxx/CVE-2023-43091.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-43091",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239091",
        "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/issues/588",
        "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/commit/d26cd774d524404ef7784e6808f551de83de4bea",
        "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 522055,
  "published_at": "2024-11-17T12:25:49.293+00:00"
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