CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-11421
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-07-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Description
gnome-exe-thumbnailer before 0.9.5 is prone to a VBScript Injection when generating thumbnails for MSI files, aka the "Bad Taste" issue. There is a local attack if the victim uses the GNOME Files file manager, and navigates to a directory containing a .msi file with VBScript code in its filename.
Affected configurations
• gnome-exe-thumbnailer project gnome-exe-thumbnailer (<= 0.9.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/posts/gnome-thumbnailer-msi-fail.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99922 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.debian.org/868705 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/commit/1d8e3102dd8fd23431ae6127d14a236da6b4a4a5 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/posts/gnome-thumbnailer-msi-fail.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99922 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.debian.org/868705 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/commit/1d8e3102dd8fd23431ae6127d14a236da6b4a4a5 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory