Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting pdfkit package, versions < 0.5.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.77% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-PDFKIT-20071
  • published20 Feb 2013
  • disclosed20 Feb 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Feb 2013

CVE-2013-1607  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

PDFKit is a gem that uses wkhtmltopdf to create PDFs using HTML. Affected versions of PDFKit contain a flaw that is due to the program failing to properly validate input during the handling of parameters when generating PDF files. This may allow a remote attacker to potentially execute arbitrary code via the pdfkit generation options.

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