CVE-2017-1000159

Publication date 27 November 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

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

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
atril	17.10 artful	Fixed in 1.18.1-1ubuntu0.1
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed in 1.12.2-1ubuntu0.3
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
evince	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Fixed in 3.24.0-0ubuntu1.3
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed in 3.18.2-1ubuntu4.3
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed in 3.10.3-0ubuntu10.4

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
evince	Upstream: ?id=350

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3503-1
Evince vulnerability
4 December 2017

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1000159

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