CVE-2017-17513

TeX Live through 20170524 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote…

published December 14, 2017

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
69.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

TeX Live through 20170524 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, related to linked_scripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun, texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/mswin/mtxrun.lua, and texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-os.lua.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01281 · 69.8th percentile
Published
2017-12-14T16:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 DEC 16:00Z
    TeX Live through 20170524 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote…
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