CVE-2017-17523

Summary

CVECVE-2017-17523
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-12-11 06:29:00 UTC
Updated2017-12-29 15:38:00 UTC
Descriptionlilypond-invoke-editor in LilyPond 2.19.80 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-74

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Lilypond Lilypond 2.19.80 All All All
Application Lilypond Lilypond 2.19.80 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
#881767 - sensible-utils: CVE-2017-17512: Argument injection in sensible-browser - Debian Bug report logs MISC bugs.debian.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
#884136 - lilypond: CVE-2017-17523 - Debian Bug report logs MISC bugs.debian.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
LilyIssues / Issues / #5243 Fix security problem in lilypond-invoke-editor MISC sourceforge.net Issue Tracking, Patch
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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