CVE-2017-17524

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17524
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-17524.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-17524
Downstream
Published
2017-12-14T16:29:00.760Z
Modified
2026-07-08T12:41:14.375489Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

library/www_browser.pl in SWI-Prolog 7.2.3 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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/swi-prolog/swipl-devel

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/swi-prolog/swipl-devel
Events
Introduced
3403a6fd9c71ddf0ed8a7177a3214dc56b336aa6
Last affected
3403a6fd9c71ddf0ed8a7177a3214dc56b336aa6
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:swi-prolog:swi-prolog:7.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "7.2.3"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "7.2.3"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

7.*
7.2.3
V7.*
V7.2.3

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-17524.json"