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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-12-11T06:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:51:32.035Z

Reserved: 2017-12-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-17512

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-12-11T06:29:00.270

Modified: 2018-03-16T01:29:07.267

Link: CVE-2017-17512

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