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CVE-2017-17513
HIGH · CVSS 8.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-12-14T16:29:00.293 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:10:54.120

Summary

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.

Affected products

tug — tex_live

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References

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