Argument-injection vulnerability in TeX Live through 20170524 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted URL.

Argument-injection vulnerability in TeX Live through 20170524 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted URL.

CVE-2017-17513 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

TeX Live through 20170524 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, related to linked_scripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun, texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/mswin/mtxrun.lua, and texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-os.lua.

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