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CVE-2000-0727

Published: Oct 20, 2000 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025
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
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0727
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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

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