Security Advisory

CVE-2017-17522

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-12-14 16:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 20:51:32
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Lib/webbrowser.py in Python through 3.6.3 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 indicates that exploitation is impossible because the code relies on subprocess.Popen and the default shell=False setting