What is CVE-2018-10992?

CVE-2018-10992 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Lilypond, classified under Argument Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-05-11.

How severe is CVE-2018-10992?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Lilypond

CVE-2018-10992

lilypond-invoke-editor in LilyPond 2.19.80 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which allows remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by a --proxy-pac-file argument, because the GNU Guile code uses the system Scheme procedure instead of the system* Scheme procedure. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-17523.

EPSS: 0.015 (71.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Lilypond — versions 2.19.80
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-88 — Argument Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-10992?: CVE-2018-10992 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Lilypond, classified under Argument Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-05-11.
How severe is CVE-2018-10992?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.