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Command Injection in Pygments

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 3, 2023

Package

pip Pygments (pip)

Affected versions

>= 1.2.2, < 2.1

Patched versions

2.1

Description

The FontManager._get_nix_font_path function in formatters/img.py in Pygments 1.2.2 through 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a font name.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 8, 2016
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Jun 3, 2022
Last updated Apr 3, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.0
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2015-8557

GHSA ID

GHSA-fff8-4w9p-7v76

Source code

Credits

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