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CVE-2017-17522
HIGH · CVSS 8.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-12-14T16:29:00.713 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:10:55.177

Summary

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

Affected products

python — python

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