CVE-2017-17532

8.8 highEPSS 1.6%

High (8.8) in kiwi project kiwi. EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

examples/framework/news/news3.py in Kiwi 1.9.22 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.

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: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 76% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-74
Published: 2017-12-14
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

kiwi_project:kiwi

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17532
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17532

Check your stack JSON