CVE-2017-18266

CVE-2017-18266 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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