Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-17520
tools/url_handler.pl in TIN 2.4.1 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 third party has reported that this is intentional behavior, because the documentation states "url_handler.pl was designed to work together with tin which only issues shell escaped absolute URLs.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.005
EPSS Ranking 66.8%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 8.8
CVSS v2 Score 6.8
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