High
Security advisory
delphi_gui/WWWBrowserRunnerDM.pas in PasDoc 0.14 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. NOTE: a software maintainer has indicated that the code referencing the BROWSER environment variable is never used
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-17527
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:19 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
delphi_gui/WWWBrowserRunnerDM.pas in PasDoc 0.14 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. NOTE: a software maintainer has indicated that the code referencing the BROWSER environment variable is never used
osv:CVE-2017-17527
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-17527",
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