{"id":"GHSA-336h-q7mh-8vf8","summary":"Reddit Terminal Viewer (RTV) vulnerable to argument injection attacks","details":"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.","aliases":["CVE-2017-17516","PYSEC-2026-914"],"modified":"2026-07-07T11:56:24.687529327Z","published":"2022-05-14T04:01:38Z","database_specific":{"github_reviewed_at":"2024-04-22T22:43:59Z","nvd_published_at":"2017-12-14T16:29:00Z","cwe_ids":["CWE-74"],"severity":"HIGH","github_reviewed":true},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17516"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv/issues/531"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17516"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"rtv","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/rtv"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"1.19.0"}]}],"versions":["1.0","1.0.post1","1.0a2","1.0a3","1.0a4","1.0a5","1.0a6","1.0a7","1.0a8","1.0a9","1.1","1.1.1","1.1.2","1.10.0","1.11.0","1.12.0","1.12.1","1.13.0","1.13.1","1.14.1","1.15.0","1.15.1","1.16.0","1.17.0","1.17.1","1.18.0","1.19.0","1.2","1.2.1","1.2.2","1.3","1.4","1.4.1","1.4.2","1.5","1.6","1.6.1","1.7.0","1.8.0","1.8.1","1.9.0","1.9.1"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/05/GHSA-336h-q7mh-8vf8/GHSA-336h-q7mh-8vf8.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}