CVE-2017-17523

HIGH 8.8CVE-2017-17523 · Published 11/12/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-17523 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting lilypond (lilypond).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.1%, higher than 81.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
lilypond lilypond	`= 2.19.80`	No fix yet

Description

lilypond-invoke-editor in LilyPond 2.19.80 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which allows remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by a --proxy-pac-file argument.

References

bugs.debian.org/881767 · Issue Tracking
bugs.debian.org/884136 · Issue Tracking
sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5243 · Issue Tracking

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