CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-17512
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-12-11
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-74
Description
sensible-browser in sensible-utils before 0.0.11 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which allows remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by a --proxy-pac-file argument.
Affected configurations
• sensible-utils project sensible-utils (< 0.0.11)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component weakness
References
- http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/s/sensible-utils/sensible-utils_0.0.11_changelog Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/881767 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00012.html lists.debian.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3584-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4071 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/s/sensible-utils/sensible-utils_0.0.11_changelog Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/881767 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00012.html lists.debian.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3584-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4071 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html cert-portal.siemens.com