Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-18266

Title: Freedesktop Xdg-Utils Injection (SQLi/OSi)

Injection (SQLi/OSi)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-18266.

CWE Category CWE-74
Published Date May 10, 2018
Modified Date Nov 21, 2024
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 8.8 CVSS v3.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.00%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-18266: 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.

Impacted Vendors

G
gentoo 1
F
freedesktop 1

Reference Links

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103807 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/commit/?id=5647afb35e4bcba2060148e1a2a47bc43cc240f2 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/commit/?id=ce802d71c3466d1dbb24f2fe9b6db82a1f899bcb https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/tree/ChangeLog https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00014.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3650-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4211 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103807 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/commit/?id=5647afb35e4bcba2060148e1a2a47bc43cc240f2 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/commit/?id=ce802d71c3466d1dbb24f2fe9b6db82a1f899bcb https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/tree/ChangeLog https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00014.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3650-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4211
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

CVE-2017-18266 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction REQUIRED
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.