CVE-2017-18266

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18266
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-18266.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-18266
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-05-10T14:29:00.207Z
Modified
2026-07-08T05:50:24.621002925Z
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

The open_envvar function in xdg-open in xdg-utils before 1.1.3 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, as demonstrated by %s in this environment variable.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "17.10"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "17.10"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "18.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "18.04"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "9.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
159fc37075db2decf446f453fe1a796da6921aad
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:xdg-utils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.1.3"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
start
tmp
v1.*
v1.0
v1.0-beta1
v1.0-beta3
v1.0-beta4
v1.0-rc1
v1.0.1
v1.0.2
v1.1.0
v1.1.0-rc1
v1.1.0-rc2
v1.1.0-rc3
v1.1.1
v1.1.2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-18266.json"