CVE-2017-17516: Reddit Terminal Viewer Project Reddit Terminal Viewer

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

Published 2017-12-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.