CVE-2017-17513

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-12-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-74

Description

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: through 20170524

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17513
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17513

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