CVE-2016-4991

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jul 28, 2022
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: May 24, 2016

Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-77

Affected Products

Product	Versions
nodepdfn/a	nodepdf 1.3.0Affected

References

https://lf.lc/cve/cve-2016-4991/

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