High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 14, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-17513
CVE-2017-17513
Description
TeX Live through 20170524 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, related to linked_scripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun, texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/mswin/mtxrun.lua, and texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-os.lua.
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References
1- security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17513nvdThird Party Advisory
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