{"action":"Upgrade fontforge to 1:20201107~dfsg-1 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"1:20201107~dfsg-1","introduced":"0"}],"component":"fontforge","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:13","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["1:20201107~dfsg-1"],"id":"tcs_01M5NC9J0NVQ109Q2BRBPDW2AD","modified_at":"2026-09-01T20:03:45.735840911Z","published_at":"2017-12-14T16:29:00.683Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17521","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17521"],"severity":{"label":"high","score":8.8},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17521#Debian:13/fontforge","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17521"}],"summary":"uiutil.c in FontForge through 20170731 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-inje"}