CVE-2016-4991

EPSS 1.4%CWE-77

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 1.4%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

28 Jul 2022Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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

n/a · nodepdf

References

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