CVE-2017-17530: Geomview

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

common/help.c in Geomview 1.9.5 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. NOTE: this is disputed by a third party because no untrusted input can be used for the injection

Affected products

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