CVE-2017-18266

Publication date

2018-05-10 14:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

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.