CVE-2017-17514

2017-12-1416:00:00

mitre

github.com

AI Score

6.8

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

52.7%

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

Technical Impact

total

JSON

boxes.c in nip2 8.4.0 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 this product does not use the BROWSER environment variable

ADP Affected

[
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "vendor": "debian",
    "product": "debian_linux",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "8.0"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unknown"
  },
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "vendor": "debian",
    "product": "debian_linux",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "9.0"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unknown"
  },
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "vendor": "debian",
    "product": "debian_linux",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "10.0"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unknown"
  },
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:nip2_project:nip2:8.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "vendor": "nip2_project",
    "product": "nip2",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "8.4.0"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unknown"
  }
]