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CVE-2017-17527

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% 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

delphi_gui/WWWBrowserRunnerDM.pas in PasDoc 0.14 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 has indicated that the code referencing the BROWSER environment variable is never used

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• Pasdoc Project Pasdoc: 0.14

References

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17527
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17527

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