Vulnerability CVE-2017-11421
Published: 2017-07-18   Modified: 2017-07-19

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Gnome-exe-thumbnailer project -> Gnome-exe-thumbnailer 

 References:
http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/posts/gnome-thumbnailer-msi-fail.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99922
https://bugs.debian.org/868705
https://github.com/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/commit/1d8e3102dd8fd23431ae6127d14a236da6b4a4a5
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