CVE-2017-17512

Publication date 11 December 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

sensible-browser in sensible-utils before 0.0.11 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which allows remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by a --proxy-pac-file argument.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
sensible-utils 17.10 artful
Fixed 0.0.10ubuntu0.1
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.0.9ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.0.9ubuntu0.14.04.1

Patch details

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Package Patch details
sensible-utils

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3584-1
    • sensible-utils vulnerability
    • 26 February 2018

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