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kiwi — security advisory
examples/framework/news/news3.py in Kiwi 1.9.22 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.
- Products
- kiwi
- Affected versions
- 1.9.22-3, 1.9.22-4, 10.1.18-1ubuntu1, 10.2.16-1, 10.2.22-1, 10.2.24-1, 10.2.26-1, 10.2.27-1, 10.2.28-1, 10.2.33-1, 10.2.36-1, 10.2.38-1, 10.2.41-1, 10.2.42-1, 10.3.10-1, 10.3.4-1, 10.3.5-1, 10.3.7-1, 10.3.9-1, 9.25.11-1ubuntu1, 9.25.22-1ubuntu1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-17532
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 00:22 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
examples/framework/news/news3.py in Kiwi 1.9.22 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.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17532
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Complete source record
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