PT-2017-14837 · Pasdoc · Pasdoc

Published 2017-12-14 · Updated 2024-08-05 · CVE-2017-17527

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 PasDoc version 0.14

Description The issue concerns the delphi gui/WWWBrowserRunnerDM.pas file in PasDoc 0.14, which does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable. This might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL. A software maintainer has indicated that the code referencing the BROWSER environment variable is never used.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Special Elements Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-74

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-17527

Affected Products

Pasdoc

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17527 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-17527 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17527 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17527 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17527 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17527 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17527 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/89288 · Telegram Post
• https://sources.debian.org/src/pasdoc/0.14.0-1/source/delphi_gui/WWWBrowserRunnerDM.pas/?hl=63#L63 · Note