CVE-2010-2809
The default configuration of the <Button2> binding in Uzbl before 2010.08.05 does not properly use the @SELECTED_URI feature, which allows…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 7.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The default configuration of the <Button2> binding in Uzbl before 2010.08.05 does not properly use the @SELECTED_URI feature, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted HREF attribute of an A element in an HTML document.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- uzbl 'uzbl-core' - '@SELECTED_URI' Mouse Button Bindings Command Injection (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 34426remote, linuxpublished 5 Aug 2010Verified
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Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 28 days later
· 28 days later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.3% · top 5.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- http://github.com/Dieterbe/uzbl/commit/9cc39cb5c9396be013b5dc2ba7e4b3eaa647e975 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://github.com/pawelz/uzbl/commit/342f292c27973c9df5f631a38bd12f14a9c5cdc2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621964 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100806 CVE request: uzbl before 2010.08.05: User-assisted execution of arbitrary commands caused by faulty default config (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100806 Re: CVE request: uzbl before 2010.08.05: User-assisted execution of arbitrary commands caused by faulty default config (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://www.uzbl.org/news.php?id=29 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 42297 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.uzbl.org/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=240 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621965 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- uzbl-atselecteduri-command-execution(61011) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-2813 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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