CVE-2017-17516High· 8.8▾ TwilightReddit Terminal Viewer (RTV) vulnerable to argument injection attacks
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 48.4 · likelihood 0.2 · exploitation 0
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Disclosed via OSV
Last analysed / modified upstream
1.2%
1.2% → 1.2%
scripts/inspect_webbrowser.py in Reddit Terminal Viewer (RTV) 1.19.0 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.
rtv <= 1.19.0Refer to the advisory for the patched release.