CVE-2020-5253 (GCVE-0-2020-5253)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-03-10 16:35
Modified
2024-08-04 08:22
Severity ?
3.9 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-184 - Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs
Summary
NetHack before version 3.6.0 allowed malicious use of escaping of characters in the configuration file (usually .nethackrc) which could be exploited. This bug is patched in NetHack 3.6.0.
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