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Xdg-utils

8 CVEs tracked. None of them is in CISA KEV.

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Xdg-utils, a product in the oss libraries space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

Xdg-utils CVEs per month

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026. Point at a month, or focus the strip and use the arrow keys.
Xdg-utils CVEs per month
MonthCVEs
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2025-010
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2025-061
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2026-010
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2026-090

Severity

How the 8 CVEs score on CVSS. Severity is not exploitation: KEV is counted above.

  • High338%
  • Medium450%
  • Low113%

Latest CVEs

The 8 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Xdg-utils.

  1. CVE-2025-52968xdg-open in xdg-utils through 1.2.1 can send requests containing SameSite=Strict cookies, which can facilitate CSRF. (For example, xdg-open could be modified to, by default, associate x-scheme-hand...2.7
  2. CVE-2022-4055When xdg-mail is configured to use thunderbird for mailto URLs, improper parsing of the URL can lead to additional headers being passed to thunderbird that should not be included per RFC 2368. An a...7.4
  3. CVE-2015-1877The open_generic_xdg_mime function in xdg-open in xdg-utils 1.1.0 rc1 in Debian, when using dash, does not properly handle local variables, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary comman...8.8
  4. CVE-2020-27748A flaw was found in the xdg-email component of xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc1 and newer. When handling mailto: URIs, xdg-email allows attachments to be discreetly added via the URI when being passed to Thunde...6.5
  5. CVE-2017-18266The open_envvar function in xdg-open in xdg-utils before 1.1.3 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attacke...8.8
  6. CVE-2014-9622Eval injection vulnerability in xdg-utils 1.1.0 RC1, when no supported desktop environment is identified, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via the URL argument to xdg-open.6.8
  7. CVE-2009-0068Interaction error in xdg-open allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending a file with a dangerous MIME type but using a safe type that Firefox sends to xdg-open, which causes xdg-o...6.8
  8. CVE-2008-0386Xdg-utils 1.0.2 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL argument to (1) xdg-open or (2) xdg-email.6.8

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