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Unscored CVE-2016-4991 EUVD-2016-5957GHSA-p7w2-cg47-7v79

Input passed to the Pdf() function is shell escaped and passed to child_process.exec() during PDF rendering. However, the shell escape does…

Published Jul 28, 2022 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by redhat

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— nodepdf nodepdf 1.3.0 —

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