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CVE-2017-1000083 in the critical feed json

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

published 2017-09-05 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-1400

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
51.1%
EPSS 51.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • atril Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.16.1-2.1
  • evince Debian 13, Debian 12 3.22.1-4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-1000083

  • atril Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.12.2-1ubuntu0.2
  • evince Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.10.3-0ubuntu10.3
  • evince Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-1000083

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 RHEL 7 3.22.1-5.2.el7_4
  • evince-dvi RHEL 7 3.22.1-5.2.el7_4
  • evince-libs RHEL 7 3.22.1-5.2.el7_4
  • evince-nautilus RHEL 7 3.22.1-5.2.el7_4
  • evince-browser-plugin RHEL 7 3.22.1-5.2.el7_4

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:2388

  • evince SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +8 more 3.20.2-6.19.15
  • evince SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +8 more 3.20.1-6.16.1
  • evince SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2 +3 more 3.20.1-6.14.1
  • evince SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12-LTSS +2 more 3.10.3-2.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:3428-1SUSE-SU-2017:2390-1SUSE-SU-2017:1893-1SUSE-SU-2017:1894-1

  • evince openSUSE Tumbleweed 40.4-1.3

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10742-1

  • evince Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +15 more 3.24.0-r2

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-1000083

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • evince Arch Linux 3.24.0+12+g717df38f-1

arch linux advisories AVG-348

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-2017-1000083 updated cvss 7.1

evince: command injection via filename in tar-compressed comics archive

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) evince 3.22.1-5.2.el7_4, evince-dvi 3.22.1-5.2.el7_4, evince-libs 3.22.1-5.2.el7_4, evince-nautilus 3.22.1-5.2.el7_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) evince-browser-plugin 3.22.1-5.2.el7_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) evince 3.22.1-5.2.el7_4, evince-dvi 3.22.1-5.2.el7_4, evince-libs 3.22.1-5.2.el7_4, evince-nautilus 3.22.1-5.2.el7_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) evince-browser-plugin 3.22.1-5.2.el7_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) evince 3.22.1-5.2.el7_4, evince-dvi 3.22.1-5.2.el7_4, evince-libs 3.22.1-5.2.el7_4, evince-nautilus 3.22.1-5.2.el7_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) evince-browser-plugin 3.22.1-5.2.el7_4
    fixed: vendor fix “- Disabling evince-thumbnailer to render icons will reduce the attack surface (removing /usr/share/thumbnailers/evince.thumbnailer). - SELinux in enforcing mode partially restricts evince-thumbnailer” RHSA-2017:2388
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 evince Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 evince, evince-dvi, evince-libs
    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

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/multi/fileformat/evince_cbt_cmd_injection)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

51.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.