office-converter through 1.0.2 contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows attackers to execute commands by supplying a crafted…
office-converter through 1.0.2 contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows attackers to execute commands by supplying a crafted fileName to generatePdf() or generateHtml(). Attackers can embed $(...), backticks, or a closing quote with shell metacharacters in the file name, which is concatenated into an unoconv command run via child_process.exec(), executing commands with Node.js process privileges.
Read at NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0)
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- office
- CVSS
- 9.8
- EPSS
- 0.034 (p89)
- Exposure class
- Developer platform
Why it ranks 23 (Routine)
- CVSS 9.8 critical
- Product class: developer platform
- Recency: items published within 24 hours gain 15, within 72 hours 6, within 7 days 2.
Links
- NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0) (nvd.nist.gov)
- CVE-2020-37282 on this site · NVD · CVE.org · Vulnpedia
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