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CVE-2017-17532

• 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

examples/framework/news/news3.py in Kiwi 1.9.22 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.

Affected products

• Kiwi Project Kiwi: 1.9.22

References

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17532
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17532

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