github - ghsa-fc69-2v7r-7r95

ghsa-fc69-2v7r-7r95

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-14 03:37

Modified

2025-04-20 03:49

Severity ?

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

Details

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.

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CVE-2017-17512 (GCVE-0-2017-17512)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-12-11 06:00

Modified

2024-08-05 20:51

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

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

URL

Tags

	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3584-1/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00012.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/s/sensible-utils/sensible-utils_0.0.11_changelog	x_refsource_MISC
	https://bugs.debian.org/881767	x_refsource_MISC
	https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4071	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN

Impacted products

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

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