CVE-2017-17517 — Injection in Project Sylpheed

CWE-74 — Injection8 documents6 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 32.17%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Sylpheed Project Sylpheed
Timeline
PublishedDec 14
Latest updateMay 14

Description

libsylph/utils.c in Sylpheed through 3.6 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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages1 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-834x-38jv-m3qg: libsylph/utils↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2017-17517: libsylph/utils↗2017-12-14
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CVEList
CVE-2017-17517: libsylph/utils↗2017-12-14
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Debian
CVE-2017-17517: sylpheed - libsylph/utils.c in Sylpheed through 3.6 does not validate strings before launch...↗2017
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💬Community

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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-17517 sylpheed: Command injection in libsylph/utils.c [epel-7]↗2017-12-14
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-17517 sylpheed: Command injection in libsylph/utils.c↗2017-12-14
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-17517 sylpheed: Command injection in libsylph/utils.c [fedora-all]↗2017-12-14
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CVE-2017-17517 — Injection in Sylpheed Project Sylpheed | cvebase