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CVE-2017-14604

Description

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 files Name field ends in .pdf but this files 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 users answer in the metadata::trusted field.

Risk Information

Base Score
6.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
3.908

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
nautilus security update(DSA-3994-1) nautilus_3.22.3-1+deb9u1_i386.debLinux
(RHSA-2018:0223) Moderate: nautilus security update nautilus-3.22.3-4.el7_4.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:0223) Moderate: nautilus security update nautilus-3.22.3-4.el7_4.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:0223) Moderate: nautilus security update nautilus-devel-3.22.3-4.el7_4.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:0223) Moderate: nautilus security update nautilus-devel-3.22.3-4.el7_4.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:0223) Moderate: nautilus security update nautilus-extensions-3.22.3-4.el7_4.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:0223) Moderate: nautilus security update nautilus-extensions-3.22.3-4.el7_4.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:1694-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 ) nautilus-2.28.4-1.16.21.3.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:1694-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 ) nautilus-32bit-2.28.4-1.16.21.3.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:1694-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 ) nautilus-lang-2.28.4-1.16.21.3.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2058-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) gnome-shell-search-provider-nautilus-3.20.3-23.3.14.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2058-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libnautilus-extension1-3.20.3-23.3.14.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2058-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libnautilus-extension1-32bit-3.20.3-23.3.14.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2058-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libnautilus-extension1-debuginfo-3.20.3-23.3.14.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2058-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libnautilus-extension1-debuginfo-32bit-3.20.3-23.3.14.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2058-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) nautilus-3.20.3-23.3.14.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2058-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) nautilus-debuginfo-3.20.3-23.3.14.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2058-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) nautilus-debugsource-3.20.3-23.3.14.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2058-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) nautilus-lang-3.20.3-23.3.14.noarch.rpmLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234