CVE-2019-7653 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2019-7653?

CVE-2019-7653 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 9 Feb 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Debian python-rdflib-tools 4.2.2-1 package for RDFLib 4.2.2 has CLI tools that can load Python modules from the current working directory, allowing code injection, because "python -m" looks in this directory, as demonstrated by rdf2dot. This issue is specific to use of the debian/scripts directory.

Weakness: CWE-427

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-7653?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Rdflib Project Rdflib.

How do I fix CVE-2019-7653?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2019-7653 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-7653 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-7653, DLA-1717-1, DLA-2861-1, GHSA-34gp-mhv2-cg2f, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-7653, USN-4535-1.