Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting evince package, versions [,3.24.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
51.08% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-EVINCE-2369976
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-1000083  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade evince to version 3.24.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection backend/comics/comics-document.c (aka the comic book backend) in GNOME Evince before 3.24.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a .cbt file that is a TAR archive containing a filename beginning with a "--" command-line option substring, as demonstrated by a --checkpoint-action=exec=bash at the beginning of the filename.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1