Reddit Terminal Viewer (RTV) vulnerable to argument injection attacks

HIGH 8.8CVE-2017-17516 · GHSA-336h-q7mh-8vf8 · PYSEC-2026-914 · Published 14/12/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-17516 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting rtv, reddit terminal viewer (reddit terminal viewer project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.2%, higher than 69.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
rtv PyPI	`≤ 1.19.0`	No fix yet
reddit terminal viewer reddit_terminal_viewer_project	`= 1.19.0`	No fix yet

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.

NVD description

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17516 · ADVISORY
michael-lazar/rtv · WEB
michael-lazar/rtv · PACKAGE
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17516 · WEB
pypi.org/project/rtv · PACKAGE
GitHub Advisory GHSA-336h-q7mh-8vf8 · ADVISORY

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