michael-lazar/rtv · Security
Reddit Terminal Viewer (RTV) vulnerable to argument injection attacks
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-336h-q7mh-8vf8
- CVE ID
- CVE-2017-17516
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.8 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 8.8 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
scripts/inspect_webbrowser.py in Reddit Terminal Viewer (RTV) 1.19.0 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.
CWEs
- CWE-74 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')