Vulnerability in Xpdf
CVE-2000-0727
xpdf PDF viewer client earlier than 0.91 does not properly launch a web browser for embedded URL's, which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands via a URL that contains shell metacharacters.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.6 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.026 (84.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 84.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.026 · newest: 0.026 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Xpdf — versions 0.90
References
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www.debian.org/security/2000/20000910a (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/1624 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-031.0.txt (Vendor Advisory, vendor-advisory, Patch)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-060.html (vendor-advisory)