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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2017-1000159 json

Command injection in evince via filename when printing to PDF.

published 2017-11-27 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-1444

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 72%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Command injection in evince via filename when printing to PDF. This affects versions earlier than 3.25.91.

Patch / fix

  • gnome evince 3.25.91
  • atril Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.20.0-1
  • evince Debian 13, Debian 12 3.25.92-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-1000159

  • atril Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.12.2-1ubuntu0.3
  • evince Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.10.3-0ubuntu10.4
  • evince Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 3.18.2-1ubuntu4.3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-1000159

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • evince SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP3 +2 more 3.20.2-6.22.9
  • evince SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 2.28.2-0.7.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0947-1SUSE-SU-2018:0639-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-1000159 updated cvss 7.8

evince: Command injection when exporting to PDF

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 evince, evince-dvi, evince-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 evince, evince-dvi, evince-libs, evince-nautilus, evince-browser-plugin
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 evince
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.