CVE-2026-4786 (GCVE-0-2026-4786)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-13 21:52
Modified
2026-04-14 14:30
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
Summary
Mitgation of CVE-2026-4519 was incomplete. If the URL contained "%action" the mitigation could be bypassed for certain browser types the "webbrowser.open()" API could have commands injected into the underlying shell. See CVE-2026-4519 for details.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Python Software Foundation | CPython |
Version: 0 |
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