CVE-2016-4991 Information

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.

Reference

https://lf.lc/cve/cve-2016-4991/ 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.