CVE-2017-17513

HIGH 8.8CVE-2017-17513 · Published 14/12/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-17513 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting tex live (tug).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.3%, higher than 70.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
tex live tug	`≤ 20170524`	No fix yet

Description

TeX Live through 20170524 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, related to linked_scripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun, texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/mswin/mtxrun.lua, and texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-os.lua.

References

security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17513 · Third Party Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

tex live

tug

≤ 20170524

No fix yet

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