# CVE-2023-47104: tinyfiledialogs (aka tiny file dialogs) before 3.15.0 allows shell metacharacters (such as a backquote or a dollar sign) in titles, messages

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-10-30 · Updated: 2024-09-09

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

tinyfiledialogs (aka tiny file dialogs) before 3.15.0 allows shell metacharacters (such as a backquote or a dollar sign) in titles, messages, and other input data. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-36767, which only considered single and double quote characters.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/25498#issuecomment-703527082
- https://sourceforge.net/p/tinyfiledialogs/code/ci/ac9f9f6d8cdf45ca8d9b4cf1f201ee472301e114/

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