Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-17513

Title: Tug Tex Live Injection (SQLi/OSi)

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-17513.

CWE Category CWE-74

Published Date Dec 14, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 8.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.28%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-17513: TeX Live through 20170524 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, related to linked_scripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun, texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/mswin/mtxrun.lua, and texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-os.lua.

Impacted Vendors

tug 1

Reference Links

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17513 https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17513

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns