CVE-2017-17514

HIGH 8.8CVE-2017-17514 · Published 14/12/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-17514 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting nip2 (nip2 project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 77.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
nip2 nip2_project	`= 8.4.0`	No fix yet

Description

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

References

jcupitt/nip2 · Issue Tracking
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17514 · Issue Tracking

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