fkie_cve-2017-17512
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2017-12-11 06:29
Modified
2025-04-20 01:37
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| sensible-utils_project | sensible-utils | * |
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}
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"id": "CVE-2017-17512",
"lastModified": "2025-04-20T01:37:25.860",
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