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CVE-2016-4991

ExploitedNVDCIRCLENISA

EUVD-2016-5957 · Published Jul 28, 2022

Input passed to the Pdf() function is shell escaped and passed to child_process.exec() during PDF rendering. However, the shell escape does not properly encode all special characters, namely, semicolon and curly braces. This can be abused to achieve command execution. This problem affects nodepdf 1.3.0.

Technologies

Nodepdf_Project Nodepdf

Weaknesses

CWE-77

CVSS scores

  • v3.19.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

MITRE ATT&CK

Inferred

Where this vulnerability fits in an attack

Initial Access

References

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