Argument Injection Vulnerability in LilyPond 2.19.80 via lilypond-invoke-editor

CVE-2017-17523 · MEDIUM Severity

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

lilypond-invoke-editor in LilyPond 2.19.80 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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