CVE-2017-17513

N/A

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published12/14/2017

Last Modified4/20/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

tug:tex_live

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-74

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17513(cve@mitre.org)

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17513(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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