PT-2017-14834 · Swi+1 · Swi-Prolog+1

Published 2017-12-14 · Updated 2017-12-28 · CVE-2017-17524

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SWI-Prolog version 7.2.3

Description The issue is related to the library/www browser.pl in SWI-Prolog, which does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable. This could allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL.

Recommendations For SWI-Prolog version 7.2.3, consider validating strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable to prevent argument-injection attacks. As a temporary workaround, restrict the use of the BROWSER environment variable until a patch is available.

Fix

Special Elements Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-74

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-17524

Affected Products

Debian

Swi-Prolog

References · 11

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17524 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17524 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-17524 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17524 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17524 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17524 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/swi-prolog · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17524 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17524 · Security Note
• https://packages.debian.org/src:swi-prolog · Note
• https://sources.debian.org/src/swi-prolog/7.2.3+dfsg-1/library/www_browser.pl/?hl=68#L68 · Note