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Reddit Terminal Viewer (RTV) vulnerable to argument injection attacks

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 14, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 22, 2024

Package

pip rtv (pip)

Affected versions

<= 1.19.0

Patched versions

None

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 14, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 14, 2022
Last updated Apr 22, 2024
Reviewed Apr 22, 2024

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.198%
(58th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-17516

GHSA ID

GHSA-336h-q7mh-8vf8

Source code

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