CVE-2017-17527

HIGH

PasDoc 0.14 - Argument Injection via BROWSER Environment Variable

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

delphi_gui/WWWBrowserRunnerDM.pas in PasDoc 0.14 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 software maintainer has indicated that the code referencing the BROWSER environment variable is never used

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17527

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0163
EPSS Percentile 73.3%
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 (4)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
pasdoc_project/pasdoc 0.14
Published Dec 14, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026