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CVE-2017-17512

Date: December 11, 2017

sensible-browser in sensible-utils before 0.0.11 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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (9)

http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/s/sensible-utils/sensible-utils_0.0.11_changelog
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17512
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17512
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-17512
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4071
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3584-1/
https://bugs.debian.org/881767
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00012.html
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-17512

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Injection

CWE-74

CVSS v3

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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