CVE-2017-18266 (GCVE-0-2017-18266)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-05-10 14:00
Modified
2024-08-05 21:13
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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