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CVE-2017-18266

8.8 highEPSS 2.4%

High (8.8). EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The open_envvar function in xdg-open in xdg-utils before 1.1.3 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, as demonstrated by %s in this environment variable.

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
2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 84% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
CWE
CWE-74
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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