CVE-2017-17519: Ocaml Batteries Project Ocaml Batteries

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

batteriesConfig.mlp in OCaml Batteries Included (aka ocaml-batteries) 2.6 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

• Ocaml Batteries Project Ocaml Batteries: version 2.6 only

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