CVE-2017-17522

2017-12-1416:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

AI Score

8.6

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.006

Percentile

78.5%

JSON

Lib/webbrowser.py in Python through 3.6.3 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. NOTE: a software maintainer indicates that exploitation is impossible because the code relies on subprocess.Popen and the default shell=False setting