Unscored USN-4649-1 1 CVE

xdg-utils vulnerability

Published Nov 26, 2020 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Jens Mueller discovered that xdg-utils incorrectly handled certain URI.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.

Fixed packages 3

Release	Package	Fixed in
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS	xdg-utils	1.1.1-1ubuntu1.16.04.4
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS	xdg-utils	1.1.2-1ubuntu2.4
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS	xdg-utils	1.1.3-2ubuntu1.20.04.1

Vulnerabilities 1

Unscored —

CVE-2020-27748

A flaw was found in the xdg-email component of xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc1 and newer. When handling mailto: URIs, xdg-email all…

xdg-utils xdg-utils xdg-utils Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux

Jun 1, 2021

References

report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-27748