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FKIE_CVE-2023-43091

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-11-17 13:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:25
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A flaw was found in GNOME Maps, which is vulnerable to a code injection attack via its service.json configuration file. If the configuration file is malicious, it may execute arbitrary code.
References
patrick@puiterwijk.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239091Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
patrick@puiterwijk.orghttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/commit/d26cd774d524404ef7784e6808f551de83de4beaPatch
patrick@puiterwijk.orghttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/issues/588Exploit, Issue Tracking
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gnome gnome-maps *
gnome gnome-maps *
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