CVE-2017-17531: GNU Global

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

gozilla.c in GNU GLOBAL 4.8.6 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

• GNU Global: version 4.8.6 only

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