CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.8. It may be remotely exploitable.
CVE
CVE-2017-18266
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.8
EPSS
2.49%
Original NVD 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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