CVE-2016-4991

CRITICAL Year: 2016
CVSS v3 Score
9.8
Critical
Weakness Type
CWE-77
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Vulnerability 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.

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