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
2026-04-10T03:59:08.059563Z
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
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
3403a6fd9c71ddf0ed8a7177a3214dc56b336aa6
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "7.2.3"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

V5.*
V5.10.0
V5.10.1
V5.10.2
V5.10.3
V5.10.4
V5.10.5
V5.10.6
V5.6.44
V5.6.45
V5.6.46
V5.6.47
V5.6.48
V5.6.49
V5.6.50
V5.6.51
V5.6.53
V5.6.54
V5.6.56
V5.6.57
V5.6.58
V5.6.59
V5.6.60
V5.6.61
V5.6.63
V5.6.64
V5.8.0
V5.8.0-rc1
V5.8.2
V5.8.3
V6.*
V6.0.0
V6.0.1
V6.0.2
V6.2.0
V6.2.1
V6.2.2
V6.2.3
V6.2.4
V6.2.5
V6.2.6
V6.4.0
V6.4.1
V6.6.0
V6.6.1
V6.6.2
V6.6.3
V6.6.4
V6.6.5
V6.6.6
V7.*
V7.2.0
V7.2.1
V7.2.2
V7.2.3
Other
split

Database specific

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