Argument-injection vulnerability in tools/url_handler.pl in TIN 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted URLs

CVE-2017-17520 · MEDIUM Severity

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

tools/url_handler.pl in TIN 2.4.1 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. NOTE: a third party has reported that this is intentional behavior, because the documentation states "url_handler.pl was designed to work together with tin which only issues shell escaped absolute URLs.

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