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High 7.8Published Sep 21, 2026
CVE-2026-79079An issue in CrossWire Xiphos <= 4.3.2 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via the src/main/url.cc and src/gtk/menu_popup.c components
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An issue in CrossWire Xiphos <= 4.3.2 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via the src/main/url.cc and src/gtk/menu_popup.c components
- CVSS
- 7.8 HIGH (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-78
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- mitre
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Sep 22, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
No affected products are listed yet.
References
- https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/pull/1314/commits/68bbe3063b601537d1e505dd1a4560d51811a9e0
- https://gist.github.com/lggcs/c1f98ce55ced44472651b9590d9f199a
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