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Command Injection in pdfinfojs

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 7, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 31, 2023

Package

npm pdfinfojs (npm)

Affected versions

< 0.4.1

Patched versions

0.4.1

Description

Versions of pdfinfojs before 0.4.1 are vulnerable to command injection. This is exploitable if an attacker can control the filename parameter that is passed into the pdfinfojs constructor.

Recommendation

Update to version 0.4.1 or later.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 1, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 7, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Jan 31, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-3746

GHSA ID

GHSA-3pxp-6963-46r9

Source code

No known source code
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