CVSS 3.0
8.8 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2017-17522
Lib/webbrowser.py in Python through 3.6.3 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. NOTE: a software maintainer indicates that exploitation is impossible because the code relies on subprocess.Popen and the default shell=False setting
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-74
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- python:python