Vulnerability CVE-2017-17523


Published: 2017-12-11

Description:
lilypond-invoke-editor in LilyPond 2.19.80 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which allows remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by a --proxy-pac-file argument.

Type:

CWE-74

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Lilypond -> Lilypond 

 References:
https://bugs.debian.org/881767
https://bugs.debian.org/884136
https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5243/

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