CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-17527

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The delphi_gui/WWWBrowserRunnerDM.pas in PasDoc 0.14 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.

Risk Assessment

Attackers could exploit this vulnerability to execute unauthorized commands on the victim's system, posing a serious security threat to the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update to a newer version of PasDoc that addresses this vulnerability or implement additional validation mechanisms for the BROWSER variable.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

delphi_gui/WWWBrowserRunnerDM.pas in PasDoc 0.14 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. NOTE: a software maintainer has indicated that the code referencing the BROWSER environment variable is never used

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS