What is GHSA-336h-q7mh-8vf8?

GHSA-336h-q7mh-8vf8 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. Reddit Terminal Viewer (RTV) vulnerable to argument injection attacks

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-336h-q7mh-8vf8 cover?

GHSA-336h-q7mh-8vf8 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2017-17516. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-336h-q7mh-8vf8?

GHSA-336h-q7mh-8vf8 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-336h-q7mh-8vf8?

GHSA-336h-q7mh-8vf8 affects 1 product, including: pip/rtv:\u003c= 1.19.0.

GHSA-336h-q7mh-8vf8HighCVSS 8.8

Reddit Terminal Viewer (RTV) vulnerable to argument injection attacks

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

May 14, 2022

Last Modified

April 22, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2017-17516 →

📋 Description

scripts/inspect_webbrowser.py in Reddit Terminal Viewer (RTV) 1.19.0 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.

🎯 Affected products1

pip/rtv:<= 1.19.0

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17516
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17516
https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv/issues/531
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-336h-q7mh-8vf8