CVE-2017-17513

TeX Live through 20170524 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, related to linked_scripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun, texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/mswin/mtxrun.lua, and texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-os.lua.

Score

CVSS 3.0 8.8 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-12-14

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-74

Affected products

• Tex Live (Tug)

References

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17513