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The open_envvar function in xdg-open in xdg-utils before 1.1.3 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, as demonstrated by %s in this environment variable.

 https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/usn-3650-1 USN-3650-1 — xdg-utils vulnerability 2026-10-02T16:28:21.298530+00:00

Affected: Ubuntu:14.04:LTS: xdg-utils, Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: xdg-utils, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: xdg-utils

It was discovered that xdg-utils incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code.