CVE-2017-11421

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-94

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/posts/gnome-thumbnailer-msi-fail.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99922
https://bugs.debian.org/868705Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/commit/1d8e3102dd8fd23431ae6127d14a236da6b4a4a5Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/posts/gnome-thumbnailer-msi-fail.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99922
https://bugs.debian.org/868705Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/commit/1d8e3102dd8fd23431ae6127d14a236da6b4a4a5Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jul 18, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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