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CVE-2017-11421

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

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.

Affected products

• Gnome-Exe-Thumbnailer Project Gnome-Exe-Thumbnailer: through 0.9.4

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
• 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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