9.8

CVE-2018-10992: lilypond Argument Injection

CVSS: 9.8v3.0CriticalModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2018-10992DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10992
Published 11-05-2018Last modified 05-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-10992 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) Argument Injection vulnerability in lilypond. EPSS estimates a 1.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.8/10
010
Critical · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.45%
0%100%
Low · -0.04 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11021-1

Timeline

  1. 11-05-2018
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.45%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

73%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

-0.04 pp

From 1.49% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
1.45%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • lilypond< 2.18.2-13
Lilypond1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • lilypondAll versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 3 products

References

4 links