CVE-2017-17512

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17512
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-17512.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-17512
Downstream
Withdrawn
2026-01-27T04:15:51.005083Z
Published
2017-12-11T06:29:00Z
Modified
2026-01-27T04:15:51.005083Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages