CVE-2017-17523

HIGH

LilyPond 2.19.80 - Argument Injection via BROWSER Environment Variable

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 (3)

Core 3
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.debian.org/884136
Issue Tracking, Patch x_refsource_misc
https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5243/
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.debian.org/881767

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0211
EPSS Percentile 79.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-74
Status published
Products (1)
lilypond/lilypond 2.19.80
Published Dec 11, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026