GHSA-fpr8-4wvx-j9q3

node-qpdf vulnerable to command injection

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2023-26155

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	node-qpdf	<= 1.0.3	no fix listed

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

All versions of the package node-qpdf 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.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26155 advisory
https://github.com/nrhirani/node-qpdf/issues/23 web
https://github.com/nrhirani/node-qpdf package
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NODEQPDF-5747918 web