FontForge through 20170731 BROWSER Environment Variable Argument-Injection Vulnerability

FontForge through 20170731 BROWSER Environment Variable Argument-Injection Vulnerability

CVE-2017-17521 · MEDIUM Severity

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

uiutil.c in FontForge through 20170731 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, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-17534.

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