backend/comics/comics-document.c (aka the comic book backend) in GNOME Evince before 3.24.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary…

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

51.1% · top 1.1% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• 46341 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/128 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://github.com/GNOME/evince/commit/717df38fd8509bf883b70d680c9b1b3cf36732ee (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784630 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 99597 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:2388 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• DSA-3911 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 45824 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2017-1000083](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2017-1000083.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2017-1000083)

Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 21:53 UTC.