CVE-2020-24972 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2020-24972?

CVE-2020-24972 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 29 Aug 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The Kleopatra component before 3.1.12 (and before 20.07.80) for GnuPG allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code because openpgp4fpr: URLs are supported without safe handling of command-line options. The Qt platformpluginpath command-line option can be used to load an arbitrary DLL.

Weakness: CWE-116

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-24972?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Kleopatra Project Kleopatra, Opensuse Backports Sle, Opensuse Leap.

How do I fix CVE-2020-24972?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2020-24972 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-24972 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-24972, GHSA-p3w5-fpg6-wrh9, MGASA-2020-0425, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-24972, openSUSE-SU-2020:1723-1, openSUSE-SU-2020:1754-1.