GHSA-336h-q7mh-8vf8

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    GHSA-336h-q7mh-8vf8

    Published: 14 May 2022Last Modified: 7 Jul 2026

    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.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17516, https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv/issues/531, https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv, https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17516

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: rtv

    Purl: pkg:pypi/rtv

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.0
    1.0.post1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High