CVE-2017-11421 (GCVE-0-2017-11421)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-07-18 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 18:12
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2017-07-18 00:00
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