Vulnerabilites related to sensible-utils_project - sensible-utils
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2017-12-11 06:29
Modified
2025-04-20 01:37
Summary
sensible-browser in sensible-utils before 0.0.11 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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
sensible-utils_project sensible-utils *



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CVE-2017-17512 (GCVE-0-2017-17512)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-12-11 06:00
Modified
2024-08-05 20:51
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
sensible-browser in sensible-utils before 0.0.11 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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a n/a Version: n/a
Show details on NVD website


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