CVE-2017-17524: Swi-Prolog

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

library/www_browser.pl in SWI-Prolog 7.2.3 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

• Swi-Prolog Swi-Prolog: version 7.2.3 only

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