CVE-2017-17534

high

Published 2017-12-14 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2

6.8

VIR risk

8.8

Description

uiutil.c in Mensis 0.0.080507 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-2017-17521.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17534.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
mensis_project	mensis	`0.0.080507`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17534
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17534.html

CWEs

CWE-74

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.