CVE-2017-17523

8.8 highEPSS 2.1%

High (8.8) in lilypond lilypond. EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

lilypond-invoke-editor in LilyPond 2.19.80 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

CVSS 3.0

8.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 81% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-74
Published: 2017-12-11
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

lilypond:lilypond

References

https://bugs.debian.org/881767
https://bugs.debian.org/884136
https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5243/
https://bugs.debian.org/881767
https://bugs.debian.org/884136

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