THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-4519 (LOW 3.3) — The webbrowser.open() API would accept leading dashes in the URL which
could be handled as command line options for certain web browsers. New
behavior rejects leading dashes. Users are recommended to sanitize URLs
prior to passing to webbrowser.open().
[NVD] CVE-2026-4519 (LOW 3.3) — The webbrowser.open() API would accept leading dashes in the URL which could be handled as command line options for certain web browsers. New behavior rejects leading dashes. Users are recommended to sanitize URLs prior to passing to webbrowser.open().
CVE-2026-4519 CVSS: 3.3 LOW Published: 2026-03-20T15:16:24.057
The webbrowser.open() API would accept leading dashes in the URL which could be handled as command line options for certain web browsers. New behavior rejects leading dashes. Users are recommended to sanitize URLs prior to passing to webbrowser.open().
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-4519cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-4519