CVE-2017-18266 — Injection in Xdg-utils

CWE-74 — InjectionCWE-88 — Argument Injection8 documents7 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.0%
top 22.91%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Freedesktop Xdg-utilsDebian Xdg-utilsCanonical Ubuntu Linux+1 more
Timeline
PublishedMay 10
Latest updateMay 14

Description

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.

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 Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/xdg-utils< xdg-utils 1.1.3-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianfreedesktop/xdg-utils< 1.1.3-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04

Patches

Patch: bugs.freedesktop.org ↗Patch: cgit.freedesktop.org ↗Patch: bugs.freedesktop.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-76r6-j2q8-m63q: The open_envvar function in xdg-open in xdg-utils before 1↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2017-18266: The open_envvar function in xdg-open in xdg-utils before 1↗2018-05-10
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
xdg-utils vulnerability↗2018-05-21
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Red Hat
xdg-utils: Argument injection vulnerability in open_envvar() function↗2017-11-18
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Debian
CVE-2017-18266: xdg-utils - The open_envvar function in xdg-open in xdg-utils before 1.1.3 does not validate...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-18266 xdg-utils: Argument injection vulnerability in open_envvar() function [fedora-all]↗2018-05-16
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-18266 xdg-utils: Argument injection vulnerability in open_envvar() function↗2018-05-16
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