CVE-2017-17521

uiutil.c in FontForge through 20170731 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, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-17534.

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

• Fontforge (Fontforge)

References

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17521