CVE-2017-11421

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11421
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-11421.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-11421
Downstream
Published
2017-07-18T19:29:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T03:49:11.331750Z
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
Fixed

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

github.com/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/gnome-exe-thumbnailer

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/gnome-exe-thumbnailer
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected