debian · CVE-2017-18266

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:00:49 GMT

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CVE-2017-18266 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (xdg-utils), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

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.

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