DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17512

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17512
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17512.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17512
Upstream
Published
2017-12-11T06:29:00.270Z
Modified
2025-11-14T04:01:10.904047Z
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

Debian:11 / sensible-utils

Package

Name
sensible-utils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/sensible-utils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.0.11

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / sensible-utils

Package

Name
sensible-utils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/sensible-utils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.0.11

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / sensible-utils

Package

Name
sensible-utils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/sensible-utils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.0.11

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / sensible-utils

Package

Name
sensible-utils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/sensible-utils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.0.11

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}