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scripts/inspect_webbrowser.py in Reddit Terminal Viewer (RTV) 1.19.0 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

Published Dec 14, 2017

Description

scripts/inspect_webbrowser.py in Reddit Terminal Viewer (RTV) 1.19.0 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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-74

References (4)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Dec 14, 2017
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Dec 11, 2017
Link CVE-2017-17516
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2017-17516
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2017-17516
GHSA-336H-Q7MH-8VF8