CVE-2017-17521

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2017-12-14
CWE:
CWE-20
Bugzilla:
1526142: CVE-2017-17521 fontforge: Command injetion in help function uiutil.c

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

uiutil.c in FontForge through 20170731 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, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-17534.

Find out more about CVE-2017-17521 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue affects the versions of fontforge as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 5.3
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact Low

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 fontforge Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 fontforge Will not fix

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