CVE-2017-14604 (GCVE-0-2017-14604)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-09-20 08:00
Modified
2024-08-05 19:34
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
GNOME Nautilus before 3.23.90 allows attackers to spoof a file type by using the .desktop file extension, as demonstrated by an attack in which a .desktop file's Name field ends in .pdf but this file's Exec field launches a malicious "sh -c" command. In other words, Nautilus provides no UI indication that a file actually has the potentially unsafe .desktop extension; instead, the UI only shows the .pdf extension. One (slightly) mitigating factor is that an attack requires the .desktop file to have execute permission. The solution is to ask the user to confirm that the file is supposed to be treated as a .desktop file, and then remember the user's answer in the metadata::trusted field.
References
cve@mitre.org http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3994 Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101012 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0223 Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=860268 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777991 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://github.com/GNOME/nautilus/commit/1630f53481f445ada0a455e9979236d31a8d3bb0 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://github.com/GNOME/nautilus/commit/bc919205bf774f6af3fa7154506c46039af5a69b Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/2238 Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://micahflee.com/2017/04/breaking-the-security-model-of-subgraph-os/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3994 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101012 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0223 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=860268 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777991 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://github.com/GNOME/nautilus/commit/1630f53481f445ada0a455e9979236d31a8d3bb0 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://github.com/GNOME/nautilus/commit/bc919205bf774f6af3fa7154506c46039af5a69b Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/2238 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://micahflee.com/2017/04/breaking-the-security-model-of-subgraph-os/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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