CVE-2021-45845

Publication date 25 January 2022

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

The Path Sanity Check script of FreeCAD 0.19 is vulnerable to OS command injection, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted FCStd document.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
freecad	26.04 LTS resolute	Not in release
	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Notes

sbeattie

introduced in upstream commit dfc4e53f67 (Working html report with asciidoctor, 2020-07-27) (v0.19)

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
freecad	Upstream: a73f442

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H