CVE-2022-36231

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Feb 23, 2023
Updated: Mar 13, 2025
Reserved: Jul 18, 2022

Description

pdf_info 0.5.3 is vulnerable to Command Execution because the Ruby code uses backticks instead of Open3.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://rubygems.org/gems/pdf_info
https://github.com/affix/CVE-2022-36231
https://github.com/newspaperclub/pdf_info/pull/15
https://github.com/newspaperclub/pdf_info/issues/16

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