CVE-2017-11421

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-11421
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-11421.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-11421
Downstream
Published
2017-07-18T19:29:00Z
Modified
2026-08-27T08:18:36Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/exe-thumbnailer/exe-thumbnailer

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/exe-thumbnailer/exe-thumbnailer
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last Affected
400b8063797cefe36fc018ae82de7b1946060032
Fixed
1d8e3102dd8fd23431ae6127d14a236da6b4a4a5
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnome-exe-thumbnailer_project:gnome-exe-thumbnailer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.9.4"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.1
0.2
0.3-0ubuntu1
0.4-0ubuntu1
0.5-0ubuntu1
0.6-0ubuntu1
0.7-0ubuntu1
0.8-0ubuntu1
0.9-0ubuntu1
0.9-0ubuntu2
0.9.3-0ubuntu1
0.9.4

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-11421.json"