Improper input validation in sensible-utils (Debian package) - CVE-2017-17512
Published: December 22, 2017 / Updated: December 26, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU9758
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-17512
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to conduct argument-injection attacks.
The vulnerability exists in sensible-browser due to insufficient sanitization of strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
sensible-utils (Debian package)
sensible-utils
Fedora
Ubuntu
sensible-utils
Fedora
Ubuntu
How to mitigate CVE-2017-17512
Update to version 0.0.11.
sensible-utils - addressed in versions 0.0.11-1.fc26, 0.0.11-1.fc27, 0.0.12-2.el7