CVE-2017-17517

HIGH 8.8CVE-2017-17517 · Published 14/12/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-17517 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting sylpheed (sylpheed project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.2%, higher than 68.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
sylpheed sylpheed_project	`≤ 3.6`	No fix yet

Description

libsylph/utils.c in Sylpheed through 3.6 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.

References

security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17517 · Issue Tracking

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