High
Security advisory
The Path Sanity Check script of FreeCAD 0.19 is vulnerable to OS command injection, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted FCStd document.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-45845
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:05 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Path Sanity Check script of FreeCAD 0.19 is vulnerable to OS command injection, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted FCStd document.
osv:CVE-2021-45845
Complete source record
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"references": [
"https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5229",
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