CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2000-0727

Published: Oct 20, 2000 | Modified: Oct 18, 2016
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.6 HIGH
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

xpdf PDF viewer client earlier than 0.91 does not properly launch a web browser for embedded URLs, which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands via a URL that contains shell metacharacters.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Xpdf Xpdf 0.90 (including) 0.90 (including)

References