Vulnerability Details CVE-2016-4991
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 43.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.8
Products affected by CVE-2016-4991
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cpe:2.3:a:nodepdf_project:nodepdf:1.3.0