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A Vulnerability of LG Electronic web OS TV Emulator could allow an attacker to escalate privileges and overwrite certain files. This vulnerability is due to wrong environment setting. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability through crafted configuration files and executable files.
- Products
- weechat
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.7.1-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-9759
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 13:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A Vulnerability of LG Electronic web OS TV Emulator could allow an attacker to escalate privileges and overwrite certain files. This vulnerability is due to wrong environment setting. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability through crafted configuration files and executable files.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-9759
weechat
Fixed versions: 2.7.1-1
weechat
Fixed versions: 2.7.1-1
weechat
Fixed versions: 2.7.1-1
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 452396,
"published_at": "2020-03-23T16:15:17.86+00:00"
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