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1 vulnerability by sensible-utils_project
CVE-2017-17512 (GCVE-0-2017-17512)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-12-11 06:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 20:51
VLAI?
Summary
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 ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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