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CVE-2017-1000083

73
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-1000083 is a critical command injection vulnerability affecting GNOME Evince versions prior to 3.24.1, specifically within its comic book backend. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted .cbt file, which is a TAR archive containing a filename starting with a malicious command-line option substring. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), successful exploitation grants high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, requiring user interaction but with low attack complexity. While not on CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code, including a Metasploit module, is available, indicating a high likelihood of exploitation, despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.24.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evince:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
50.83%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Evince CBT File Command Injection · Jul 13, 2017
ExploitDB: EDB-46341 · Feb 11, 2019
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.5083 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 11,615 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: evince-0:3.22.1-5.2.el7_4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-1000083Important

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

Jul 13, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2388
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.gnome.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / oss-sec/2017/q3/128
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
github.com / GNOME/evince/commit/717df38fd8509bf883b70d680c9b1b3cf36732ee
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/45824
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
exploit-db.com / exploits/46341
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3911
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/99597
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry