CVE-2017-17525: Xtuple Postbooks

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

guiclient/guiclient.cpp in xTuple PostBooks 4.7.0 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

• Xtuple Postbooks: version 4.7.0 only

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