CVE-2017-17520

HIGH 8.8CVE-2017-17520 · Published 14/12/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-17520 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting tin (debian).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.9%, higher than 79.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
tin debian	`= 2.4.1`	No fix yet

Description

tools/url_handler.pl in TIN 2.4.1 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 third party has reported that this is intentional behavior, because the documentation states "url_handler.pl was designed to work together with tin which only issues shell escaped absolute URLs.

References

security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17520 · Issue Tracking

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