CVE-2016-4991

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Summary

CVECVE-2016-4991
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-07-28 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-08-04 11:49:00 UTC
DescriptionInput 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-77

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Nodepdf Project Nodepdf 1.3.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2016-4991: Command injection in NodePDF | Anthony Weems MISC lf.lc
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