GHSA-h6h9-pphv-m266

Topydo Improper Input Validation vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2018-1000523

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	topydo	<= 0.13	no fix listed

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

topydo contains a CWE-20: Improper Input Validation vulnerability in `ListFormatParser::parse`, file `topydo/lib/ListFormat.py` line 292 as of d4f843dac71308b2f29a7c2cdc76f055c3841523 that can result in Injection of arbitrary bytes to the terminal, including terminal escape code sequences. This attack appear to be exploitable via The victim must open a todo.txt with at least one specially crafted line.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000523 advisory
https://github.com/bram85/topydo/issues/240 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h6h9-pphv-m266 advisory
https://github.com/bram85/topydo package
https://github.com/bram85/topydo/blob/master/topydo/lib/ListFormat.py#L292 web
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/topydo/PYSEC-2018-76.yaml web