Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting kiwi package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.55% (67th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-KIWI-13722622
  • published28 Oct 2025
  • disclosed14 Dec 2017

Introduced: 14 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17532  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-74  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:14 kiwi.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kiwi package and not the kiwi package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

examples/framework/news/news3.py in Kiwi 1.9.22 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.