Evince 3.24.8 Printing to PDF filename command injection

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A vulnerability was found in Evince 3.24.8 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Printing to PDF. The manipulation of the argument filename with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Command injection in evince 3.24.8 via filename when printing to PDF

The bug was discovered 11/27/2017. The weakness was shared 11/27/2017 as Bug 784947 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is available at bugzilla.gnome.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-1000159 since 11/27/2017. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1202 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 105477 (Fedora 26 : evince (2017-d6402c8005)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Fedora Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 171087 (OpenSUSE Security Update for evince (openSUSE-SU-2018:0960-1)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 2 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (105477). The entries VDB-259474, VDB-259753, VDB-262227 and VDB-263202 are related to this item.

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Class: Command injection
CWE: CWE-77 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Nessus ID: 105477
Nessus Name: Fedora 26 : evince (2017-d6402c8005)
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OpenVAS ID: 867788
OpenVAS Name: Ubuntu Update for evince USN-3503-1
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Advisory: Bug 784947
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CVE: CVE-2017-1000159 (🔍)
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Created: 11/28/2017 07:41
Updated: 12/10/2019 19:25
Changes: 11/28/2017 07:41 (72), 12/10/2019 19:25 (4)
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Cache ID: 3:DB7:103

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