CVE-2017-18266

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

8.8

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

1.003

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
desktop integration utilities from freedesktop.org (USN-3650-1) xdg-utils_1.1.1-1ubuntu3.2_all.deb	Linux
desktop integration utilities from freedesktop.org (USN-3650-1) xdg-utils_1.1.2-1ubuntu2.2_all.deb	Linux
desktop integration utilities from freedesktop.org (USN-3650-1) xdg-utils_1.1.0~rc1-2ubuntu7.2_all.deb	Linux
desktop integration utilities from freedesktop.org (USN-3650-1) xdg-utils_1.1.1-1ubuntu1.16.04.3_all.deb	Linux
xdg-utils security update(DSA-4211-1) xdg-utils_1.1.1-1+deb9u1_all.deb	Linux
xdg-utils security update(DSA-4211-1) xdg-utils_1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.4+deb8u1_all.deb	Linux
SUSE-SU-2018:1497-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) xdg-utils-20140630-6.3.1.noarch.rpm	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234