CVE-2017-17512

Publication date 11 December 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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

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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

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
sensible-utils	Upstream: ?id=e16

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	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