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CVE-2018-1000523

HIGH · CVSS 8.1 EPSS 1.17% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-06-26 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

AI analysis pending.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
exploit
GitHub PoC Links
github.com ↗ github.com ↗

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CVE
CVE-2018-1000523
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.1
EPSS
1.17%

Original NVD Description

topydo contains a CWE-20: Improper Input Validation vulnerability in ListFormatParser::parse, file topydo/lib/ListFormat.py line 292 as of d4f843dac71308b2f29a7c2cdc76f055c3841523 that can result in Injection of arbitrary bytes to the terminal, including terminal escape code sequences. This attack appear to be exploitable via The victim must open a todo.txt with at least one specially crafted line..