CVE-2017-17530

HIGH 8.8CVE-2017-17530 · Published 14/12/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-17530 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting geomview (geomview).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 74.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
geomview geomview	`= 1.9.5`	No fix yet

Description

common/help.c in Geomview 1.9.5 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: this is disputed by a third party because no untrusted input can be used for the injection

References

bugs.gentoo.org/650894 · Exploit
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17530 · Issue Tracking

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