🛡️ CVE-2017-17516 — rtv

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-74 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Reddit Terminal Viewer (RTV) vulnerable to argument injection attacks

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2017-17516 is recorded against 1 package.

  • rtv

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 7 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
security-tracker.debian.org (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-74
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
rtv — —

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