CVE-2026-4786 (GCVE-0-2026-4786)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-13 21:52 – Updated: 2026-04-29 15:30
VLAI
Title
Incomplete mitigation of CVE-2026-4519, %action expansion for command injection to webbrowser.open()
Summary
Mitgation of CVE-2026-4519 was incomplete. If the URL contained "%action" the mitigation could be bypassed for certain browser types the "webbrowser.open()" API could have commands injected into the underlying shell. See CVE-2026-4519 for details.
Severity
7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
PSF
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Python Software Foundation CPython Affected: 0 , < 3.15.0 (python)
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Credits
an7y Seth Larson Stan Ulbrych
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