The Kleopatra component before 3.1.12 (and before 20.07.80) for GnuPG allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code because openpgp4fpr: URLs are supported without safe handling of command-line options. The Qt platformpluginpath command-line option can be used to load an arbitrary DLL.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - The Kleopatra component before 3.1.12 (and before 20.07.80) for GnuPG allows remote attackers to execute     arbitrary code because openpgp4fpr: URLs are supported without safe handling of command-line options. The     Qt platformpluginpath command-line option can be used to load an arbitrary DLL. (CVE-2020-24972)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

This update for kleopatra fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2020-24972: Add upstream patch to prevent potential     arbitrary code execution (boo#1177932) :

Security fix for CVE-2020-24972

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202008-21 (Kleopatra: Remote code execution)

    Kleopatra did not safely escape command line parameters provided by       URLs, which it configures itself to handle.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could entice a user to process a specially crafted URL       via openpgp4fpr handler, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary       code with the privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service       condition.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
255938	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-24972	Nessus	Misc.	high
141890	openSUSE Security Update : kleopatra (openSUSE-2020-1723)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
141556	Fedora 32 : kleopatra (2020-9b441d3153)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
140069	GLSA-202008-21 : Kleopatra: Remote code execution	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2020-24972

high

Tenable Plugins

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high

high

high