PT-2017-14835 · Xtuple · Xtuple Postbooks

Published 2017-12-14 · Updated 2017-12-28 · CVE-2017-17525

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 xTuple PostBooks version 4.7.0

Description The issue concerns the guiclient/guiclient.cpp component in xTuple PostBooks, which fails to validate strings before launching a program specified by the BROWSER environment variable. This could potentially allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL.

Recommendations For xTuple PostBooks version 4.7.0, 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-2017-17525

Affected Products

Xtuple Postbooks

References · 7

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17525 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17525 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17525 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17525 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-17525 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17525 · Vendor Advisory
• https://sources.debian.org/src/postbooks/4.7.0-3/guiclient/guiclient.cpp/?hl=1610#L1610 · Note