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CVE-2017-1000159

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-1000159 describes a command injection vulnerability in Evince versions prior to 3.25.91, specifically when printing to PDF via a malicious filename. This flaw carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a significant risk with local access, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or notable community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.25.91CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evince:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
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
1.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0141 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 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

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: evince
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: evince

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-1000159Moderate

evince: Command injection when exporting to PDF

Jul 14, 2017

References

bugzilla.gnome.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatch
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00006.html
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00013.html
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00014.html
seclists.org / bugtraq/2020/Feb/18
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201804-15
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4624