CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-17514

8.8 HIGH Published 2017-12-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-12-14
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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

boxes.c in nip2 8.4.0 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL. NOTE: a software maintainer indicates that this product does not use the BROWSER environment variable

Affected configurations

• nip2 project nip2 8.4.0 • debian debian linux 7.0 • debian debian linux 8.0 • debian debian linux 9.0 • debian debian linux 10.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component weakness

References