python: cpython: Python: Arbitrary code execution via command injection in webbrowser.open() API

A flaw was found in the Python webbrowser.open API. If a specially crafted URL containing "%action" is processed, an attacker could bypass a previous mitigation for CVE-2026-4519. This bypass allows for command injection into the underlying shell, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution...

python: cpython: Python: Arbitrary code execution via command injection in webbrowser.open() API

A flaw was found in the Python webbrowser.open API. If a specially crafted URL containing "%action" is processed, an attacker could bypass a previous mitigation for CVE-2026-4519. This bypass allows for command injection into the underlying shell, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution...

CLSA-2026-1778087756 python3: Fix of 2 CVEs

CVE-2026-4519: reject leading dashes in webbrowser URLs to block command-line option injection via webbrowser.open - CVE-2026-4786: validate the post-substitution URL in webbrowser UnixBrowser.open so that "%action" cannot smuggle a dash-prefixed flag past the CVE-2026-4519 dash-prefix check...

python: Python: Command-line option injection in webbrowser.open() via crafted URLs

A flaw was found in Python. The webbrowser.open API, used to launch web browsers, does not properly sanitize input. This allows a remote attacker to craft a malicious URL containing leading dashes. When such a URL is opened, certain web browsers may interpret these dashes as command-line options,...

CVE-2026-4786

A flaw was found in the Python webbrowser.open API. If a specially crafted URL containing "%action" is processed, an attacker could bypass a previous mitigation for CVE-2026-4519. This bypass allows for command injection into the underlying shell, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution...

SUSE CVE-2017-17522

Lib/webbrowser.py in Python through 3.6.3 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. NOTE: a software maintainer indicates that exploitation is...

CVE-2017-17522

Lib/webbrowser.py in Python through 3.6.3 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. NOTE: a software maintainer indicates that exploitation is...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17522

Lib/webbrowser.py in Python through 3.6.3 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. NOTE: a software maintainer indicates that exploitation is...