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ghsa-76r6-j2q8-m63q

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-14 03:18

Modified

2022-05-14 03:18

Severity ?

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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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  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2017-18266"
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    "severity": "HIGH"
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  "id": "GHSA-76r6-j2q8-m63q",
  "modified": "2022-05-14T03:18:08Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T03:18:08Z",
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CVE-2017-18266 (GCVE-0-2017-18266)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2018-05-10 14:00

Modified

2024-08-05 21:13

Severity ?

CWE

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/commit/?id=ce802d71c3466d1dbb24f2fe9b6db82a1f899bcb	x_refsource_MISC
	https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/tree/ChangeLog	x_refsource_MISC
	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3650-1/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00014.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4211	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103807	x_refsource_MISC
	https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/commit/?id=5647afb35e4bcba2060148e1a2a47bc43cc240f2	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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Nomenclature

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