CVE-2016-4991

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-77

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jul 28, 2022
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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